Gregory Maguire is the author of several best-selling adult novels, including "Wicked", which was turned into a Broadway musical. His books for younger readers include the picture book "Crabby Cratchitt", the novel "The Good Liar", and the popular Hamlet Chronicles series. While writing "Leaping Beauty", Mr. Maguire sadly became allergic to all creatures great and small. Now he lives in a house without pets, though he is the father of three happy, noisy small children to whom, at this writing, he has not yet developed allergies.
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In this New York Times best-seller, Norman F. Cantor digs through the medical evidence and concludes that the Black Death of the 14th century was probably two diseases at once: bubonic plague and anthrax. He shows how these diseases affected the masses as... SEE MORE