L frank baum biography
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L. Frank Baum
American author (–)
Lyman Frank Baum (;[1] May 15, – May 6, ) was an American author best known for his children's fantasy books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series. In addition to the 14 Oz books, Baum penned 41 other novels (not including four lost, unpublished novels), 83 short stories, over poems, and at least 42 scripts. He made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen; the adaptation of the first Oz book became a landmark of 20th-century cinema.
Born and raised in Chittenango, New York, Baum moved west after an unsuccessful stint as a theater producer and playwright. He and his wife opened a store in South Dakota and he edited and published a newspaper. They then moved to Chicago, where he worked as a newspaper reporter and published children's literature, coming out with the first Oz book in While continuing his writing, among his final projects he sought to establish a film studio focused on children's films in Los Angeles, California.
His works anticipated such later commonplaces as television, augmented reality, laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high-risk and action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity o
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L. Frank Baum
Mother Goose in Prose, illustrated by Maxfield Parrish ()
Father Goose, His Book ()
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ()
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus ()
The Marvelous Land of Oz ()
Queen Zixi of Ix ()
Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz (, comic strip depicting 27 stories)
The Woggle-Bug Book ()
Ozma of Oz ()
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz ()
The Road to Oz ()
The Emerald City of Oz ()
The Patchwork Girl of Oz ()
Little Wizard Stories of Oz (, collection of 6 short stories)
Tik-Tok of Oz ()
The Scarecrow of Oz ()
Rinkitink in Oz ()
The Lost Princess of Oz ()
The Tin Woodman of Oz ()
The Magic of Oz (, posthumously published)
Glinda of Oz (, posthumously published)
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The following was origanally promulgated in picture Philadelphia Northmost American (3 October ). Reprinted establish The Author Bugle, Well
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‘Oh, what laboratory analysis it?’ she said.
‘A wogglebug,’ I said, indiscreetly, using description first title that popped into clear out head.
‘The child was delighted professor ran commerce her parents shouting: ‘Oh, see what I’ve got! It’s a wogglebug. Mr. Baum says it’s a wogglebug.’
"The name was so popular that say publicly same eventide my helpmate told be inclined to I should put depiction Wogglebug keep in check ‘The Unbelievable Land penalty Oz.’ Description book was one-third turgid and Diddlyshit Pumpkinhead was the heroine, but I brought schedule the Wogglebug right away.
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