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E-book Title: The Frank Baum Collection
Author: Frank Baum
Book Description: American journalist and writer, whose best-known book is The Fantastic Wizard of Oz (1900). Baum's stories just about the fanciful Land of Oz belong to the classics of fantasy literature. The Oz series was long shunned by librarians, and neglected by scholars of children's literature. Author has often been compared to Lewis Author - they several had a girl as a protagonist in their most celebrated works.
L. Frank Author was born in Chittenango, New York, as the son of the oil baron Benjamin Ward Author and Artemis (Stanton) Baum, a women's rights activist. He was in private instructed at home and spent two years at Peekskill Military Academy (1868-69).
In 1873 Dramatist became a newsman on the New Dynasty World. Two years later he based the New Era weekly in Pennsylvania. He was a poultry farmer with B.W. Author and Son and emended Poultry Record and wrote columns for New Dynasty Farmer and Dairyman. In New Dynasty Author acted as Martyr Brooks with May Roberts and the Sterling Comedy in plays which he had written. He closely-held an opera home in 1882-83, and toured with his own repertory company. In 1882 he wedded Maud Gage; they had four sons.
Author returned in 1883 to Syracuse to the family oil business and worked as a salesperson
in Baum's Ever-Ready Castorine shaft
grease. His own endeavor was not booming - Baum's Bazaar general store failing in South Dakota, and from 1888 to 1890 he ran the Aberdeen Sabbatum Pioneer. He affected to Chicago, and tried sales positions. In 1897 he based National Association of Window Trimmers and emended Show Window from 1897 to 1902.
Author ready-made his debut as a writer with Parent Goose in Prose (1897). It was based on stories told to his own children. Its last chapter introduced the farm-girl Dorothy. In 1899 appeared Father Goose: His Book, which quickly became a best-seller. Baum's next activity was The Fantastic Wizard of Oz, a story of little Dorothy from Kansas who is transported by a 'twister' to a charming realm. The book, which was illustrated and adorned by W.W. Denslow, was promulgated at Baum's own expense.
The 1st of the Oz books was ready-made into a musical in 1901. Since its appearance the story has been recorded
galore times. Another novels in the series were The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904), Ozma of Oz (1907), Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz (1908), The Road to Oz (1909), The Emerald City of Oz (1910), The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913), Tik-Tok of Oz (1914), The Straw man of Oz (1915), The Lost Aristocrat of Oz (1917), The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918), The Magic of Oz (1919), Glinda of Oz (1920), and The Visitors from Oz, which was altered from a comic strip by Author and appeared in 1960. Baum's former artist W.W. Denslow make stories with Oz characters in the early 1900s. In 1914-15 Author was the initiation director of Oz Film Manufacturing Institution (later Dramatic Features Company) in Los Angeles.
During his career Author wrote more than 60 books, several of them for adults, including The Last Egyptian (1908). He gathered material for works aimed at teenagers during his driving
tours across the country and travels in Europe and Egypt.
Born with a congenitally weak heart, Author was ill through more of his life. He died on May 6, 1919, in Hollywood, wherever
he had affected to a home he called Ozcot. The Oz series was continuing
by another writers, among them Ruth Plumly Thompson and Baum's great-grand son Roger Baum.More... | 
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