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- L. Frank Baum was born on May 15, 1856 and died on May 6, 1919. In 1900 he published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, possibly his best-known work. This was followed by thirteen more full-length Oz books as well as numerous stage plays, short stories, and a comic strip. After his death, the Oz series was extended by several other writers. A full list can be found here. In total, L Frank Baum wrote 55 novels plus four "lost" novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings.
- Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author, poet, playwright, actor and independent filmmaker, best known today as the creator, along with illustrator William Wallace Denslow, of one of the most popular books in American children's literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, which was made into an iconic 1939 film.
- Lyman Frank Baum (pen name: L. Frank Baum) was an American author chiefly known for his children's books set in the Land of Oz. He was born in Chittenago, New York May 15, 1856. He married Maud Gage. Baum and Maud had four sons, Frank Joslyn, Harry Neal, Robert Stanton, and Kenneth Gage. In 1900, L. Frank Baum and W.W. Denslow developed the OZ Series, which contained fifteen books he wrote, including The Wonderful Wizard of OZ. He wrote the OZ Books with John R. Neil until his death, as well as writing silent films in Hollywood.
- Frank was born in Chittenango, New York, into a devout Methodist family of German (father's side) and Scots-Irish (mother's side) origin, the seventh of nine children born to Cynthia Stanton and Benjamin Ward Baum, only five of whom survived into adulthood. He was named "Lyman" after his father's brother, but always disliked this name, and preferred to go by "Frank". His mother, Cynthia Stanton, was a direct descendant of Thomas Stanton, one of the four Founders of what is now Stonington, Connecticut.
- Baum is best known as the author of the 1900 children's fantasy novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The success of the book, and especially of its 1902 stage adaptation, led to L. Frank Baum writing sixteen more novels set in the Land of Oz and many further attempts by Baum to bring stories of Oz to stage and screen.
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