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L. Frank Baum

Born

in Chittenango, New York, The United States

May 15, 1856

Died

May 05, 1919

Genre

Children's Books, Fantasy, Fiction

Influences

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

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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 ...more

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Average rating: 3.97 · 689,917 ratings · 31,353 reviews · 2,950 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Oz, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 463,273 ratings — published 1900 — 1495 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ozma of Oz (Oz, #3) 3.96 avg rating — 25,425 ratings — published 1907 — 1642 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Marvelous Land of Oz (Oz, #2) by L. Frank Baum, David McKee (Illustrations) 3.80 avg rating — 23,450 ratings — published 1904 — 1792 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (Oz, #4) 3.75 avg rating — 14,018 ratings — published 1908 — 1053 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Road to Oz (Oz, #5) 3.74 avg rating — 12,377 ratings — published 1909 — 1237 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Emerald City of Oz (Oz, #6) 3.86 avg rating — 10,949 ratings — published 1910 — 1331 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Patchwork Girl of Oz (Oz, #7) by L. Frank Baum, Peter Glassman (Afterword), John R. Neill (Illustrator) 3.87 avg rating — 8,942 ratings — published 1913 — 1131 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oz: The Complete Collection (Oz, #1-14) by L. Frank Baum, W.W. Denslow (Illustrator) 4.24 avg rating — 7,411 ratings — published 1920 — 173 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tik-Tok of Oz (Oz, #8) by L. Frank Baum, Peter Glassman (Afterword), John R. Neill (Illustrator) 3.80 avg rating — 8,103 ratings — published 1914 — 1133 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Glinda of Oz (Oz, #14) by L. Frank Baum, Peter Glassman (Afterword), John R. Neill (Illustrator) 3.91 avg rating — 6,675 ratings — published 1920 — 923 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by L. Frank Baum (?)

“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

tags: knowledge, thievery, treasure

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

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

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Polls

December 2017 New School Read

The Trial by Franz Kafka, 1925, 255 pages

56 votes, 16.6%

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood, 1996, 468 pages

41 votes, 12.2%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 1941, 104 pages

35 votes, 10.4%

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus by L. Frank Baum, 1902, 224 pages

34 votes, 10.1%

My Ántonia by Willa Cather, 1918, 232 pages

26 votes, 7.7%

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 1981, 647 pages

26 votes, 7.7%

A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, 1989, 637 pages

25 votes, 7.4%

I, Claudius by Robert Graves, 1934, 468 pages

23 votes, 6.8%

We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, 1924, 225 pages

20 votes, 5.9%

Possession by A.S. Byatt, 1990, 555 pages

20 votes, 5.9%

Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières, 1994, 437 pages

17 votes, 5.0%

So Big by Edna Ferber, 1924, 376 pages

5 votes, 1.5%

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner, 1971, 569 pages

5 votes, 1.5%

The Third Policeman by Flann O'Brien, 1967, 200 pages

4 votes, 1.2%

337 total votes

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