The Marvelous Land of Oz - The Land of Oz Series, Book #2 - Unabridged (ePub)

L. Frank Baum was born Lyman Frank Baum on May 15, 1856, the seventh of nine children of Benjamin and Cynthia Ann Baum. Baum's father was enormously successful and Lyman grew up on the family's huge estate - Rose Lawn- in Pennsylvania. Interested in writing from an early age, he managed to persuade his father to purchase a cheap printing press which he and his brother Harry used to produce a local journal, the Rose Lawn Home Journal. But his early love was the theatre and as a young man, Baum performed often as "Louis F. Baum" and "George Brooks." Eventually, his father bought him a theater in Richburg, NY where he wrote scripts and gathered a company together to perform them. While on tour with one of his plays, the Richburg theater burned to the ground, along with the only known copies of Baum's scripts. In 1882, Baum married Maud Gage and moved to the Dakota Territory, where he failed in business as a store owner. His literary "Kansas" was said to be based on his time in drought-ridden South Dakota. Baum continued writing, achieving moderate success with his book "Mother Goose in Prose" in 1897. But in 1900, he published "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," which became a phenomenon. He would eventually write thirteen additional Oz books and brought "The Wizard of Oz" to the stage as well, where it ran on Broadway and toured America. Baum never stopped writing and, upon his death following a stroke in 1919, Baum had completed 41 novels (apart from the Oz books), 83 short stories, 200 poems at at least 42 scripts. He is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.

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