The real wizard of Oz: L. Frank Baum
Born Lyman Frank Baum (no wonder he went by Frank) near Oneida, N.Y., in 1856, the author of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and the books that followed started out infatuated by the theater. He and his wife moved west to the Dakota Territory in the 1880s, where he failed to succeed at business; then they moved to Chicago, where his writing career began.
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz( Library of Congress )
"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum was published in 1900 with illustrations by W.W. Denslow. Baum had seen little luck on the stage, managing a dry goods store and running a newspaper. He had hits with his versions of the Mother Goose tales, but they were nothing compared to the success of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," his "modernized fairy tale."
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