Gregory Maguire

The author of Wicked has a pretty moving postbag

Do you have any personal mementos on your desk? A small wooden oval box with a photo of Emily Dickinson decoupaged onto the lid, and ornamented in mustard and black paint. Inside are a few small pine cones and dried leaves gathered from the Homestead, Dickinson’s Amherst, Massachusetts, recluse. It was painted by Lynn Caponera as a present for Maurice Sendak following an excursion from Sendak’s studio in Connecticut to Massachusetts. When Sendak died – he was a dear friend – Lynn [his housekeeper] gave me this token she’d made for him. It had sat upon his desk from 1999 until he died in 2012. It has sat on my desk since. Is there anything in one of your books you wish you could go back and “fix”? I think…

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