L. Frank Baum

Katharine Rogers (CUNY Graduate Center)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.3: American (US) Writing and Culture: The Early Twentieth-century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: J. Michael Duvall (College of Charleston), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Tony Papanikolas (San Jose State University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 15 May 1856
Died 6 May 1919
Activity 1900-1919

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

Primary

Children's/Young Adult writer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright / Dramatist

Resources

Baum's Works

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A hundred years ago, L. Frank Baum introduced delighted children to the Land of Oz. This land, as described in

The Wizard of Oz

and later books, is a wonderful place where every day brings exciting adventures and problems that are solved by children, adults, animals, scarecrows, and robots talking together as equals. At the same time that Oz is exotic, it is also a recognizably American fairyland, where hierarchy is unselfconsciously ignored and problems get solved by practical ingenuity.

Lyman Frank Baum was born on May 15, 1856, the seventh child in a prosperous family that lived near Syracuse, New York. His father was an enterprising self-made businessman, who speculated in real estate and the petroleum business, which was just starting in Pennsylvania. Young Frank had many interests

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Citation: Rogers, Katharine. "L. Frank Baum". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 02 October 2007; last revised 30 August 2018. [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=298, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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