Lyman Frank Baum was an American author chiefly famous for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its sequels. He wrote 14 novels in the Oz series, plus 41 other novels, 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts. He made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and the nascent medium of film; the 1939 adaptation of the first Oz book would become a landmark of 20th-century cinema. His works anticipated such century-later commonplaces as television, augmented reality, laptop computers, wireless telephones, women in high-risk and action-heavy occupations, and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing.
L. Frank Baum
Active - 1908 - Present |
Birth - May 15, 1856 |
Death - May 6, 1919 |
Genres - Fantasy, Family, Action-Adventure, Animation, Music
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Subgenres - Musical, Silent Film, Christmas Film, Coming-Of-Age Fiction, Coming-Of-Age Film
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Anonymous, Captain Hugh Fitzgerald, Edith Van Dyne, Floyd Akers, Frank Baum, George Brooks, John Estes Cooke, Laura Bancroft, Louis F. Baum, Lyman Frank Baum, Schuyler Staunton, Suzanne Metcalf-
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