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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz at Wikisource. 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 ...
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- May 17, 1900
L. Frank Baum. Lyman Frank Baum ( / bɔːm /; [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 In addition to the 14 Oz books, Baum penned 41 other novels (not including four lost, unpublished novels), 83 short stories, over 200 poems ...
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Apr 2, 2014 · In 1900, Baum wrote one of the most famous works of children's literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, later known as The Wizard of Oz. He enjoyed a comfortable upbringing as the son of a barrel ...
Apr 11, 2024 · The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, children’s book written by L. Frank Baum and first published in 1900. A modern fairy tale with a distinctly American setting, a delightfully levelheaded heroine, and engaging fantasy characters, the story was enormously popular and became a classic of children’s literature.
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- L. Frank Baum framed the pencil he used to write the novel. L. Frank Baum—former chicken rancher, traveling salesman, and theater manager—had already published two successful children’s books when he started The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1898.
- Baum struggled to find the right name for his book. The author had a hard time deciding on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz for his title. Initially, he called the book The City of Oz, then The Emerald City, but his publisher wasn’t a fan (some say because of a superstition among publishers that no book with a jewel in the title would sell well).
- He said he got the name Oz from his filing cabinet. Three years after The Wonderful Wizard of Oz came out, Baum recalled how he came up with the name Oz: He was looking at the filing cabinet in his study.
- Dorothy Gale may have been named after a niece who died. Dorothy Gale may have gotten her name from Dorothy Gage, the infant niece of Baum’s wife, Maud.
L. Frank Baum. Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with illustrator W.W. Denslow, of one of the most popular books in American children's literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, better known today as simply The Wizard of Oz .
Jun 25, 2009 · The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library / With The Wizard of Oz, ... “that the first word ever written in the very first Oz book was ‘Dorothy.’ The ...
