L. Frank Baum

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L. Frank Baum


Born
in Chittenango, New York, The United States
May 15, 1856

Died
May 05, 1919

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Influences
Matilda Joslyn Gage, Andrew Lang, William Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, ...more


also wrote under the names:
* Edith van Dyne,
* Floyd Akers,
* Schuyler Staunton,
* John Estes Cooke,
* Suzanne Metcalf,
* Laura Bancroft,
* Louis F. Baum,
* Captain Hugh Fitzgerald


Lyman Frank Baum, a known American, wrote especially The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and 13 other stories, including Ozma of Oz (1907).

Lyman Frank Baum, an author, actor, and independent filmmaker alongside illustrator William Wallace Denslow best created the today simply most popular books in literature of children. A plethora of other works include sequels, nine other fantasies, and 55 novels in total, 82 short prose, more than two hundred poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous, and he made numerous attempts to bring his works to
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Average rating: 3.97 · 696,697 ratings · 31,747 reviews · 2,974 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ...

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Ozma of Oz (Oz, #3)

3.96 avg rating — 25,581 ratings — published 1907 — 1640 editions
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The Marvelous Land of Oz (O...

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Dorothy and the Wizard in O...

3.74 avg rating — 14,120 ratings — published 1908 — 1384 editions
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The Road to Oz (Oz, #5)

3.74 avg rating — 12,482 ratings — published 1909 — 1281 editions
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The Emerald City of Oz (Oz,...

3.86 avg rating — 11,037 ratings — published 1910 — 1329 editions
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The Patchwork Girl of Oz (O...

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Oz: The Complete Collection...

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4.24 avg rating — 7,434 ratings — published 1920 — 9 editions
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Tik-Tok of Oz (Oz, #8)

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3.80 avg rating — 8,172 ratings — published 1914 — 1130 editions
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Glinda of Oz (Oz, #14)

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3.91 avg rating — 6,728 ratings — published 1920 — 924 editions
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More books by L. Frank Baum…
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Marvelous Land of Oz Ozma of Oz Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz The Road to Oz The Emerald City of Oz The Patchwork Girl of Oz
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Quotes by L. Frank Baum  (?)
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“No thief, however skillful, can rob one of knowledge, and that is why knowledge is the best and safest treasure to acquire.”
L. Frank Baum, The Lost Princess of Oz

“Never give up... No one knows what's going to happen next.”
L. Frank Baum

“There is no place like home.”
L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Polls

March 2018 Revisit the Shelf Reread

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, 489 pages, 1859, Last Read November 2014
 
  46 votes, 12.4%

1984 by George Orwell, 328 pages, 1949, Last Read November 2015
 
  33 votes, 8.9%

Persuasion by Jane Austen, 256 pages, 1817, Last Read August 2015
 
  29 votes, 7.8%

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, 449 pages, 1938, Last Read May 2015
 
  28 votes, 7.5%

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, 258 pages, 1989, Last Read January 2017
 
  27 votes, 7.3%

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 671 pages, 1866, Last Read June 2014
 
  25 votes, 6.7%

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë, 542 pages, 1848, Last Read April 2015
 
  24 votes, 6.5%

Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 867 pages, 1847, Last Read October 2011
 
  24 votes, 6.5%

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, 254 pages, 1890, Last Read November 2016
 
  23 votes, 6.2%

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, 505 pages, 1853, Last Read August 2014
 
  20 votes, 5.4%

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, 343 pages, 1966, Last Read November 2016
 
  18 votes, 4.8%

All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, 296 pages, 1929, Last Read September 2015
 
  17 votes, 4.6%

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, 154 pages, 1900, Last Read February 2012
 
  15 votes, 4.0%

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, 146 pages, 1962, Last Read September 2016
 
  12 votes, 3.2%

The Iliad by Homer, 683 pages, -750, Last Read July 2012
 
  11 votes, 3.0%

King Lear by William Shakespeare, 316 pages, 1603, Last Read October 2012
 
  11 votes, 3.0%

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell, 251 pages, 1853, Lasr Read January 2015
 
  9 votes, 2.4%

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