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L. Frank Baum

Also known as Captain Hugh Fitzgerald, Suzanne Metcalf, Schuyler Staunton, Edith Van Dyne, George Brooks, Louis F. Baum, Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald, Lyman Frank Baum

American author of children's books (1856–1919)

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L. Frank Baum was an American author who lived from 1856 to 1919 and wrote children's books that became classics of American literature. He is best known for creating "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," which introduced readers to the magical land of Oz and remains one of the most beloved children's stories ever written.

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Vinony's link graph records 977 inbound references to L. Frank Baum, and connects out to Methodism, Land of Oz and People's Party.

It is catalogued under topics including 1856 births, 1919 deaths and 19th-century American male actors.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 15 May 1856
Died: 6 May 1919
Works: 627

Top works

Wizard of Oz
The Wonderful World of Oz (The Wizard of Oz / the Emerald City of Oz / Glinda of Oz)
Alice in the Wonderful Land of Oz
Sideways Byways
Cuentos Clásicos Infantiles Volumen 1

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Type: Person
Active from: 1963-03-29
Active to: 2018-09-12

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Listeners: 1,185
Total plays: 39,240

Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He wrote thirteen novel sequels, nine other fantasy novels, and a host of other works (55 novels in total, plus four "lost" novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings), and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen. His works anticipated such century-later commonplaces as t

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Quotes

“When I was a boy I was tremendously interested in scarecrows. They always seemed to my childish imagination as just about to wave their arms, straighten up and stalk across the field on their long legs. I lived on a farm, you know. It was natural then that my first character in this animated life series was the scarecrow, on whom I have taken revenge for all the mystic feeling he once inspired.”
“Now we can cross the Shifting Sands.”
“When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children. For aside from my evident inability to do anything "great," I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward.”
“It is a callous age; we have seen so many marvels that we are ashamed to marvel more; the seven wonders of the world have become seven thousand wonders.”
“As the years pass, and we look back on something which, at the time, seemed unbelievably discouraging and unfair, we come to realize that, after all, God was at all times on our side. The eventual outcome was, we discover, by far the best solution for us, and what we thought should have been to our best advantage, would in reality have been quite detrimental.”
“An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre."”

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Commons category: L. Frank Baum
date of birth: 1856-01-01
date of death: 1919-01-01
name in native language: Lyman Frank Baum
Commons gallery: Lyman Frank Baum
birth name: Lyman Frank Baum
Commons Creator page: L. Frank Baum
start of work period: 1897-00-00

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Works in European collections

17 objects attributed to L. Frank Baum, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Lyman Frank Baum (/bɔːm/; May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) 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 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts. He made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen; the 1939 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 Aberdeen, South Dakota, and he edited and published a newspaper called The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer. 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 1900. While continuing his writing, among his final projects he sought to establish a film studio in Los Angeles, California.

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