He had German, Scots-Irish, and English ancestry, and was the seventh of nine children born to Cynthia Ann ( née Stanton ) and Benjamin Ward Baum, only five of whom survived into adulthood.

While Baum was touring with The Maid of Arran, the theatre in Richburg caught fire during a production of Baum's ironically-titled parlor drama, Matches, destroying not only the theatre, but the only known copies of many of Baum's scripts, including Matches, as well as costumes.

Trouble is, not only is there no evidence that he purchased such an island, no one has ever been able to find any island whose name even resembles Pedloe in that area .< nowiki ></ nowiki > Nevertheless, Baum stated to the press that he had discovered a Pedloe Island off the coast of California and that he had purchased it to be " the Marvelous Land of Oz ," intending it to be " a fairy paradise for children.

In The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the only element of romance lay in the backstory of the Tin Woodman and his love Nimmie Amee, which explains his condition and does not otherwise affect the tale, and that of Gayelette and the enchantment of the Winged Monkeys ; the only other stories with such elements were The Scarecrow of Oz and Tik-Tok of Oz, both based on dramatizations, which Baum regarded warily until his readers accepted them.

These editorials are the only known occasions on which Baum articulated such views.

Believing the town to be only lightly defended, Burgoyne and Baum were unaware that Stark and 1, 500 militiamen were stationed there.

In fact, Baum accelerated this schedule, producing Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz only a year after the previous book.

Farmer's premise is that Dorothy only visited Oz once and told her story to a journalist called Frank Baum.

There were only 32 people in the first meeting, among them Lee Felsenstein, Bob Marsh, Bob Albrecht, Steve Dompier, Allen Baum and Stephen Wozniak.

From the 7th book, The Patchwork Girl of Oz onwards, Baum goes so far as to say that " Glinda and the Wizard " are the " only " ones authorized to practice magic in Oz by Queen Ozma ; it is not clear whether he forgot about the Good Witch of the North, or had written her character out of the series.

Baum apparently did not mean that only Munchkins are short in stature ( as depicted in the iconic 1939 film ), but that this is the norm for all of the adult humans of Oz.

In W. W. Denslow's illustrations for The Wonderful Wizard ( approved by Baum ), the only Oz humans depicted as remarkably taller than Dorothy are the Soldier with the Green Whiskers and Glinda.

Maud, who was ten years younger than Julia, initially horrified her mother when she chose to marry The Wonderful Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum at a time when he was a struggling actor with only a handful of plays ( of which only The Maid of Arran survives ) to his writing credit.

The Tin Woodman, sometimes referred to as the Tin Man or ( incorrectly ) the Tin Woodsman, ( the third name appears only in adaptations, the first — and in rare instances, the second — was used by Baum ), is a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum.

For example, in The Road to Oz Baum attempted to explain this inconsistency by saying that only bad people could die.

) In the Baum – Frampton model, a septillionth ( or less ) of a second before the would-be Big Rip, a turnaround occurs and only one causal patch is retained as our universe.

Beginning in the 1980s, some editions have correctly credited Thompson, although the cover of the 2001 edition by Dover Publications credits only Baum.

L. Frank Baum himself specified that she only had one eye, but that it " was as powerful as a telescope ", enabling the witch to see what was happening in her kingdom from her castle windows.

Will Baum and David Newgarden were Andy's cohosts of the show previous to Ken but David only did a handful of shows and Will did maybe a dozen at the most.

According to the final issue of the series, the book was cancelled in favor of placing the Zoo Crew in a number of miniseries, but only one such miniseries, the three-issue Oz / Wonderland War ( in which the characters became involved in an interdimensional war involving the worlds of L. Frank Baum and Lewis Carroll ), was ever published.

His habit of giving out wares on credit led to the eventual bankrupting of the store, so Baum turned to editing a local newspaper, The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer, where he wrote a column, Our Landlady.

In December 1890, Baum urged the wholesale extermination of all America's native peoples in a column he wrote on December 20, 1890, nine days before the Wounded Knee Massacre.

Baum wrote a sequel, The Woggle-Bug, but since Montgomery and Stone balked at appearing when the original was still running, the Scarecrow and Tin Woodman were omitted from this adaptation of The Marvelous Land of Oz, which was seen as a self-rip-off by critics and proved to be a major flop before it could reach Broadway.

Baum also anonymously wrote The Last Egyptian: A Romance of the Nile.

Baum continued theatrical work with Harry Marston Haldeman's men's social group, The Uplifters, for which he wrote several plays for various celebrations.

After little success probing the unrealized children's film market, Baum came clean about who wrote The Last Egyptian and made a film of it ( portions of which are included in Decasia ), but the Oz name had, for the time being, become box office poison and even a name change to Dramatic Feature Films and transfer of ownership to Frank Joslyn Baum did not help.

During the period surrounding the 1890 Ghost Dance movement and Wounded Knee Massacre, Baum wrote two editorials about Native Americans for the Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer which have provoked great controversy in recent times because of his suggestion that the safety of White settlers depended on the " extermination " of the remaining Indians.

Following the December 29, 1890, massacre, Baum wrote a second editorial, published on January 3, 1891:

) Frank Reilly tactfully wrote to Baum that the material was not " in harmony with your other fairy stories ," and would generate " considerable adverse criticism.

Baum wrote The Wizard of Oz without any thought of a sequel.

Baum also wrote sequels in 1907, 1908, and 1909.

The children refused to accept this story, so Baum, in 1913 and every year thereafter until his death in May 1919, wrote an Oz book.

The Chicago Tribunes Russell MacFall wrote that Baum explained the purpose of his novels in a note he penned to his sister, Mary Louise Brewster, in a copy of Mother Goose in Prose ( 1897 ), his first book.

Baum wrote thirteen sequels to the novel.

Alexander Volkov introduced fantasy fiction to Soviet children with his loose translation of Frank L. Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, published as The Wizard of the Emerald City, and then wrote a series of five sequels, unrelated to Baum.

* L. Frank Baum wrote four novels for adults that were never published and disappeared: Our Marred Life and Johnson ( 1912 ), The Mystery of Bonita ( 1914 ), and Molly Oodle ( 1915 ).

The highly influential American author L. Frank Baum wrote the first and most famous of his Oz books, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, in 1900.

" Since the stage adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz had been a huge hit, with two companies still touring the country as the second book was published, the reviewer's suspicion was both natural and accurate: Baum wrote a stage adaptation called The Woggle-Bug that was produced in Chicago the summer of 1905.

Baum had been active in the group since he first moved to Los Angeles in 1909 ; he served among the Excelsiors, the group's governing board, he wrote and acted in their shows, and he played the bass drum in their band.

* L. Frank Baum wrote of Little Boy Blue in his Mother Goose in Prose, depicting him as genuinely overworked supporting himself and his widowed mother.

He was first commissioned to illustrate The Marvelous Land of Oz, the second Oz book L. Frank Baum wrote, published in 1904 ; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz had been illustrated by W. W. Denslow, with whom Baum argued and lost contact afterward.

It is possible she wrote some previous unsigned editorials, rather than L. Frank Baum, for whom she completed the paper's run.