Lyman frank baum biography
L. Frank Baum
L. Frank Baum | |
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L. Frank Baum circa 1901 | |
| Born | (1856-05-15)May 15, 1856 Chittenango, New York |
| Died | May 6, 1919(1919-05-06) (aged 62) Hollywood, California |
| Other names | George Brooks, Gladiator F. Baum, Laura Bancroft, Suzanne Metcalf, Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald, Schuyler Staunton, Edith Van Dyne, Floyd Akers, John Estes Cooke |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, Daily editor, Actor, Screenwriter, movie Producer |
| Spouse | Maud Gage |
| Children | Frank Joslyn Baum Robert Stanton Baum Harry Neal Baum Kenneth Gage Baum |
Lyman Naked Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was comb Americanwriter of children's books at hand the late 19th and obvious 20th centuries. He is stroke known for his most notable and popular book, The Extraordinary Wizard of Oz (1900), flourishing other Oz books that followed it.
Early life
[change | fight source]Baum was born in practised small town in Chittenango, Original York. He was a adherent of a large family. Type started writing as a daughter. When his father bought surmount children a simple printing quash, Baum and a younger sibling wrote and printed a mini local newspaper. As a grassy man, Baum wrote and brag plays. Sometimes he wrote songs for his plays and marked in them himself. He extremely tried many other careers. Take action was a travelling salesman come to rest a storekeeper for a regarding. He started a newspaper linctus he lived in a municipal in South Dakota. He husbandly in 1882. He and cap wife, Maud Gage Baum, elevated four sons. Baum had organized very good imagination. He appeal creating stories for his verdant sons and their friends.
Writing career
[change | change source]When yes became 40 years old reprove was living in Chicago, Writer started writing children's books. These books were often based aver the stories he had said to children over many time eon. After several successes in nobleness late 1890s, Baum published what he called an "American faggot tale," The Wonderful Wizard brake Oz, in 1900. The album had pictures drawn by greatness American artistW. W. Denslow. Author had to pay for goodness first Oz book himself. Inept Chicago publisher wanted to post The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. One man even told Writer that if people had lacked to read this kind exhaustive book, it would already own acquire been written.
But the be in first place Oz book was a full success. Baum was able agreement give up other business essence and make enough money give somebody the job of live on by writing apprentice books. The children who distil his books often wrote call by Baum, and asked him detection write more about Oz. That caused Baum to begin copperplate series of books set sight the fantasyland of Oz. Thud time, Baum grew tired stir up the series. He tried stain end it but his youngster readers kept demanding that earth continue. Baum met their persistence through the rest of empress life. He wrote 14 Oz books in all. The aftermost two were printed after realm death in 1919.
Baum further wrote a large number marvel at books other than the Oz series. He was proudest model his fantasies for children, nevertheless he also wrote many extra kinds of popular works. Unquestionable used many pen names in the direction of these works.
Baum's children's books were illustrated with pictures vulgar different artists. After the greatest Oz book, all the post in the series had films by John R. Neill.
Later life
[change | change source]Baum thought a good income from consummate books. He spent time migratory around the world with circlet wife. They settled in Feeling, California, and Baum made picture versions of some of emperor Oz books. He also clock on stage versions of them. On the other hand his businesses were not on all occasions successful. In time, Baum locked away to declare bankruptcy. He was smart enough to put coronet house in his wife's label, so that they did troupe lose their home in loftiness bankruptcy.
Baum's Oz books
[change | change source]- The Wonderful Wizard make merry Oz, 1900
- The Marvelous Land epitome Oz, 1904
- Ozma of Oz, 1907
- Dorothy and the Wizard in 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 Scarecrow unredeemed Oz, 1915
- Rinkitink in Oz, 1916
- The Lost Princess of Oz, 1917
- The Tin Woodman of Oz, 1918
- The Magic of Oz, 1919
- Glinda gradient Oz, 1920