L. Frank Baum

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1856-05-15 (63 years old)

Deathday

1919-05-06

Place of Birth

Chittenango, New York, USA

L. Frank Baum

Biography

Lyman Frank Baum (/bɔːm/; May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author best known for his children's fantasy books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series. In addition to the 14 Oz books, Baum penned 41 other novels (not including four lost, unpublished novels), 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts. He made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen; the 1939 adaptation of the first Oz book became a landmark of 20th-century cinema. Born and raised in Chittenango, New York, Baum moved west after an unsuccessful stint as a theatre producer and playwright. He and his wife opened a ...

Acting

1918

The Flash of Fate

as Dave Hinman (as George Brooks)

Production

2023

1982

The Wizard of Oz

as Original Story

1993

1974

1925

1936

Oz University

as Characters

1914

1914

1991

1985

1925

1985

1964

Return to Oz

as Novel

2016

1962

No. 13: Oz

as Novel

1991

2017

Off to Oz

as Characters

1910

1910

The Land of Oz

as Producer

1933

1972

1996

1996

1996

1996

Virtual Oz

as Novel

2011

After the Wizard

as Characters

2015

1989

Trouble in Oz

as Writer

2016

1939

1978

The Wiz

as Characters

2015

The Wiz Live!

as Characters

2014

Oz

as Novel

1983

1991

1991

2000

Lion of Oz

as Novel

2013

1987

Ozma of Oz

as Novel

1963

2015

2006

2021

2021

The Wiz

as Novel

1965

1966

1967

1980

1992

OZ

as Novel

1993

2000

2006

2008

2009

2016

2016

2016

The Woodsman

as Novel

2019

Oz

as Novel

1989

Toto's Rescue

as Writer

2015

OzLand

as Novel

2010

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