Lyman Frank Baum
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L. Frank Baum was a Chicago newspaperman whose writings about Illinois were eclipsed by his chronicles of the wonderful Land of Oz. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, appeared in 1900 and was an immediate success. It was produced as a musical play in 1901. Baum followed up his success with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with 13 more Oz books. The original Wizard of Oz was the basis of the classic film of 1939, starring Judy Garland.r r Baum was also a playwright early in his life. It was as a writer, however, more than as a playwright, that Mr. Baum is best known. For more than twenty years he wrote children’s and other stories for various magazines, including St. Nicholas, Youth’s Companion, and others. During his career Mr. Baum also wrote under several pen names, the Mary Louise books, the Flying Girl, and the Aunt Jane Nieces series was written under the name of Edith Van Dyne, the Boy Fortune Hunters series under the name of Floyd Akers, the Sam Steele series under the name of Captain Hugh Fitzgerald, the Twinkle Tales and the Babes in Birdland under the name of Laura Bancroft, and various other books under the name of Suzanne Metcalf and Schuyler Staunton.
Lifetime Achievements
A new wonderland | American fairy tales | By the candelabra’s glare | Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz | Dot and Tot of Merryland. | Father Goose: His Book | Glinda of Oz | John Dough and the cherub : | Little wizard stories of Oz | Ozma of Oz. | Phoebe Daring : | Queen Zixi of Ix | Sky Island | Tales of Mother Goose | The Navy alphabet | The Tin Woodman of Oz | The Woggle-Bug book | The annotated Wizard of Oz : | The emerald city of Oz | The enchanted island of yew | The life and adventures of Santa Claus | The lost princess of Oz | The marvelous land of Oz : | The marvelous land of oz | The master key : | The patchwork girl of Oz | The road to Oz | The sea fairies | The treasury of Oz / | The wizard of Oz | The wonderful Wizard of Oz / | Tik-Tok of Oz