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L. Frank Baum
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Lyman Frank Baum (/bɔːm/; 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…
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Lyman Frank Baum (/bɔːm/; 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 In addition to the 14 Oz books, Baum penned 41 other novels (not including four lost, unpublished novels), 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts. He made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen; the 1939 adaptation of the first Oz book became a landmark of 20th-century cinema. Born and raised in Chittenango, New York, Baum moved west after an unsuccessful stint as a theatre producer and playwright. He and his wife opened a store in South Dakota, and he edited and published a newspaper. They then moved to Chicago, where he worked as a newspaper reporter and published children's literature, debuting the first Oz book in 1900. While continuing his writing, among his final projects, he sought to establish a film studio in Los Angeles, California. His works anticipated such later commonplace things as television, augmented reality, laptop computers (The Master Key), wireless telephones (Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high-risk and action-heavy occupations (Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing (Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work). Description above from the Wikipedia article L. Frank Baum, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2026
The Patchwork Girl
Movie Story
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2026
Gale: Yellow Brick Road
Movie Writer
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2025
Wicked: For Good
Movie Characters
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2025
The Wizard of the Emerald City, Part I
Movie Novel
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2024
Toto's Christmas in Oz
Movie Novel
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2024
Wicked
Movie Characters
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2023
Gale: Stay Away from Oz
Movie Book
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2023
The Wizard of Oz
Movie Novel
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023
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2023
Dorothy And Toto's Storytime: The Road To Oz
Movie Novel
- 2023
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2022
Dorothy and Toto's Storytime: Ozma of Oz Part 3
Movie Novel
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2022
Dorothy and Toto's Storytime: Ozma of Oz Part 2
Movie Novel
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2022
The Wizard 20Twenty
Movie Novel
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2022
Dorothy and Toto's Storytime: Ozma of Oz Part 1
Movie Novel
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2022
Dorothy's New Adventures in Oz
Movie Novel
- 2022
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2021
The Wiz
Movie Novel
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2021
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Movie Novel
- 2021
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2021
The Wizard of OZ
Movie Novel
- 2021
- 2021
- 2021
- 2021
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2019
Oz
Movie Novel
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2019
Fantastic Return to Oz
Movie Novel
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2019
The WonderGrove Wizard of Oz
Movie Book
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2019
The Patchwork Girl of Oz
Movie Novel
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2018
Dorothy's Christmas in Oz
Movie Novel
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2018
The Wizard of New Oz
Movie Novel
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2018
The Little Wizards of Oz
Movie Novel
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2018
The Steam Engines of Oz
Movie Novel
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2017
Off to Oz
Movie Characters
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2017
Fantastic Journey to Oz
Movie Novel
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2017
Emerald City
TV show Novel
- 2017
