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Lyman Frank Baum

Male : Children's Writer
Nationality : American Place of Birth : Chittenago, New York state

Date of Birth : 1856 Date of Death : 1919 Age : 63

Other Work : Actor, Journalist, Editor, Travelling Salesman

Education : Peekskill Military Academy
1897-1900
Mother Goose in Prose
(1897 Way & Williams, Chicago) (1898 Duckworth) - Maxfield Parrish
Father Goose, His Book
(1899 Chicago) - Denslow & Seymour
A New Wonderland
(1900 Russell, US) - Frank Berbeck
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
(1900 George M Hill, Chicago & NY) (1906 H & S) - W W Denslow
[This sold 100.000 copies within 6 months of publication]
[Filmed in 1925 & 1939]

1901-1905
American Fairy Tales
(1901 Chicago)
Dot and Tot of Merryland
(1901 Geo M Hill, Chicago) - W W Denslow
The Master Key : An Electrical Fairy Tale
(1901 Bobbs Merrill)
(1902 Stevens & Brown) - F Y Cory
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
(1902 Bobbs Merrill)
(1902 Stevens & Brown) - Mary Cowles Clark
The Surprising Adventures of the Magical Monarch of Mo and His People
(1903 Boobs Merrill) - F Verbeck
[A re-issue of "A New Wonderland']
The Enchanted Island of Yew
(1903 Bobbs Merrill) - Fanny Cory
The New Wizard of Oz
(1903 Bobbs Merrill) - W W Denslow
The Marvellous Land of Oz
(1904 Reilly & Britton) (1904 Revell) - John R Neill
The Woggle Bug Book
(1905 Reilly & Britton)
Queen Zixi of Ix
(1905 Century, NY) (1905 H & S) - Frederick Richardson

1906-1910
John Dough & The Cherub
(1906 R & B, Chicago) (1906 Constable)- John R Neill
Ozma of Oz
(1907 Reilly & Britton, Chicago) - John R Neill
Policeman Blue Jay
(1907 Reilly & Britton) - by Laura Bancroft. Maginal Wright Enright
The Last Egyptian : A Romance of the Nile
(1908 Reilly & Britton) - Francis P Wightman
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
(1908 Reilly & Britton, Chicago) - John R Neill
The Road to Oz
(1909 Reilly & Britton) - John R Neill
The Emerald City of Oz
(1910 R & B, Chicago) - John R Neill

1911-1920
All illustrated by John R Neill below
The Sea Fairies
(1911 R & B)
Sky Island
(1912 R & B)
The Patchwork Girl of Oz
(1913 R & L)
Tik-Tok of Oz
(1914 R & B)
The Scarecrow of Oz
(1915 R & B)
Oz-Man Tales : The Yellow Hen
(1916 Reilly & B, Chicago)
Rinkitink in Oz
(1916 R & B)
The Lost Princess of Oz
(1917 R & B)
The Tin Woodman of Oz
(1918 R & B)
The Magic of Oz
(1919 The Reilly & Lee Co, Chicago)
Glinda of Oz
(1920 R & L)

AFTER 1921
The Laughing Dragon of Oz
(1934 Whitman Publ Co) - Milt Youngren]
The Wizard of Oz Waddle Book
(1934 Blue Ribbon Books, NY)
Land of Oz Story Book
(1941 Hutchinson) - John R Neill]
Wizard of Oz : 1st English Edition of the MGM Movie
(c1940 Hutchinson) - H M Brock
Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman of Oz
(c1950's Hutchinson)
The Visitors from Oz
(1960 R & L) - Dick Martin
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
(1965 Dent) - L Frank Baum
The Marvellous Land of Oz
(1969 Dent Dutton) - B S Bird
The Lost princess of Oz
(1974 Hutchinson) - John R Neill
The Wizard of Oz
(1982 Holt US) - Michael Hague
John R Neill : Lucky Bucky in Oz
(nd. c1945 Hutchinson)
Jack Snow : The Magical Mimics in Oz
(nd. c1946 Reilly & Lee, Chicago)

READING
Allen Eyles : The World of Oz
(1985 Viking)
Douglas G Greene & Peter E Hanff : Bibliographia Oziana
(1988 Int. Wizard of Oz Club)
Michael O Riley : Oz and Beyond - The Fantasy World of Lyman Frank Baum
(1997 Jansas UP)


[See also Ruth Plumly Thompson]

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