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Lyman Frank Baum was born on 15 May 1856 in Chittennango, NY. His first book Mother Goose in Prose was published in 1897 with illustrations by famous artist Maxfield Parrish. In 1900, the first Oz book was published, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. For the rest of his life, Baum wrote children's books - so many that he used aliases such as Captain Hugh Fitzgerald, Edith Van Dyne, Floyd Akers, George Brooks, John Estes Cooke, Laura Bancroft, Louis F. Baum, Schuyler Stanton, and Suzanne Metcalf. Under these names, he also had success; As Floyd Akers, he wrote 6 books on the adventures The Boy Fortune Hunters As Edith Van Dyne, he published 18 books in three series for girls. But it was the magical charaters of Oz that brought Baum his fame. He wrote a musical show about Oz that ran on Broadway, and in 1908, he wrote the first of many screenplays for silent movies based on Oz. L. Frank Baum died May 6, 1919, in Hollywood, CA. His last Oz book Glinda of Oz was published the next year. Although several other authors continued the adventures of Dorothy and friends in the magical land of Oz, the orginal books by Baum are the ones veryone remembers. And the popularity of his books continues to this day! The Oz Encyclopedia | |
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L. Frank Baum Books online: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Marvelous Land of Oz Ozma of Oz Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz The Road to Oz The Emerald City of Oz The Patchwork Girl of Oz 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 Glinda of Oz Little Wizard Stories of Oz The Royal Book of Oz American Fairy Tales John Dough and the Cherub The Sea Fairies Sky Island |
