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Lyman Frank Baum (/ b ɔː m /; [1] 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 In addition to the 14 Oz books, Baum penned 41 other novels (not including four lost, unpublished novels), 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least ...
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's novel written by author L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. [1] It is the first novel in the Oz series of books. A Kansas farm girl named Dorothy ends up in the magical Land of Oz after she and her pet dog Toto are swept away from their home by a cyclone. [2]
The Oz books form a book series that begins with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and relates the fictional history of the Land of Oz.Oz was created by author L. Frank Baum, who went on to write fourteen full-length Oz books. [1]
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 1900 L. Frank Baum 1956 2 The Marvelous Land of Oz: 1904 L. Frank Baum 1960 3 Ozma of Oz: 1907 L. Frank Baum 1983 4 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz: 1908 L. Frank Baum 1984 5 The Road to Oz: 1909 L. Frank Baum 1985 6 The Emerald City of Oz: 1910 L. Frank Baum 1986 7 The Patchwork Girl of Oz: 1913 L. Frank Baum 1989 8 ...
Some of the major characters from Baum's first book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) from left to right; Tin Woodman, Toto, Dorothy Gale, Cowardly Lion, and Scarecrow. This is a list of characters in the original Oz books by American author L. Frank Baum.
Cartoonist William Allen Rogers in 1906 sees the political uses of Oz: he depicts William Randolph Hearst as Scarecrow stuck in his own Ooze in Harper's Weekly. Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz include treatments of the modern fairy tale (written by L. Frank Baum and first published in 1900) as an allegory or metaphor for the political, economic, and social events of ...
For Gregory Maguire, the author of the book Wicked: ... When Baum published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900, the U.S. was grappling with industrial innovation and territorial expansion.
Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmannuel Ambroise Diggs, [1] better known as the "Wizard of Oz" and, during his reign, as "Oz the Great and Terrible" or the "Great and Powerful Oz", is a fictional character in the Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum. [2]