Another author similar to Gregory Maguire?

Question

Just finished reading Mirror Mirror. Loved Wicked and most of Son of a Witch! Looking for any authors similar or as good as Gregory Maguire.

Answer 1

Why don't you read all his other books and short stories?

Books
* Innocence and Experience: Essays and Conversations on Children's Literature, ed., with Barbara Harrison. Non-fiction essays.
* Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister
* Lost
* No Place Like It
* A Cowardly War

Short Stories
* Scarecrow: a story about how the Scarecrow from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz comes into existence. Published in Half-Human, edited by Bruce Coville.
* Fee, Fie, Foe et Cetera: a parody of Jack and the Beanstalk, published in The Green Man: Tales from the Mythic Forest, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.
* The Oakthing: published in The Faery Reel: Tales from the Twilight Realm, edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling.
* Chatterbox, published in I BELIEVE IN WATER: Twelve Brushes With Religion (HarperCollins)
* The Honorary Shepards(1994), published in Am I Blue?:Coming Out From The Silence edited by Marion Dane Bauer (HarperCollins, 1994)

Answer 2

Don't forgethis other book.
Confessions of an Ugly stepsister
and he has a young adult book coming out this year "What-the-Dickens: The Story of a Rogue Tooth Fairy"

Two other authors you might want to try:

Robin Mckinley
* Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast
* Spindle's End

Jane Yolen
* Briar Rose

There are other books by both of these authors too.