For fans, like me, looking to fill their “Wicked” obsession, “Elphie," the fifth book in the Wicked Years ... before she was known as the Wicked Witch of the West. From her struggles with ...

Was the Wicked ... thrust upon her? Maybe what appears as wickedness began in the witch’s childhood. That’s what Massachusetts Author Gregory Maguire explores in his new book, “Elphie ...