Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is a novel published in 1995 written by Gregory Maguire, it is a revisionist look at the land and characters of Oz from who, was born in Chittenango, New York in 1856 into a devout Methodist family?
L. Frank Baum Baum was born in Chittenango, New York in 1856 into a devout Methodist family. He had German, Scots-Irish, and English ancestry, and was the seventh of nine children of Cynthia Ann (née Stanton) and Benjamin Ward Baum, only five of whom survived into adulthood. "Lyman" was the name of his father's brother, but he always disliked it and preferred his middle name "Frank".
Boq Boq is a minor character in "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum. He becomes a more prominent character in Gregory Maguire's 1995 novel "", which purports to show the lives of some of Baum's characters from another perspective, and more prominent still in the Broadway musical "Wicked" which is based on Maguire's novel.