American journalist and writer, whose best-known book is The Fantastic Wizard of Oz (1900). Baum's stories just about the fanciful Land of Oz belong to the classics of fantasy literature. The Oz series was long shunned by librarians, and neglected by scholars of children's literature. Author has often been compared to Lewis Author - they some had a girl as a protagonist in their most celebrated works.

L. Frank Author was born in Chittenango, New York, as the son of the oil baron Benjamin Ward Author and Artemis (Stanton) Baum, a women's rights activist. He was in private instructed at house and spent two years at Peekskill Military Academy (1868-69).

In 1873 Dramatist became a newsman on the New Dynasty World. Two years later he based the New Era weekly in Pennsylvania. He was a