L. Frank Baum wrote these words in his poem about The Hotel Del in 1905 after becoming captivated ... Baum’s routine at the ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/american-oz-l-frank-baum/ L. Frank Baum was an American actor, businessman and writer. He published The Wonderful ...

May 6, 1919(1919-05-06) (aged 62) Hollywood, California Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

The author L. Frank Baum set the novel, published in 1900, in a fantasy land that shares core American values: self-sufficiency, personal reinvention, the exploration of wider frontiers.

Explore the life and times of author L. Frank Baum, the creator of one of the most beloved, enduring and classic American narratives. By 1900, when The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published ...

L Frank Baum’s dreams of bringing his creation to life went up in flames. But will Wicked revive plans for a real-life Land of Oz? Imagine that you are L Frank Baum, creator of The Wizard of Oz ...

It's an homage to both L. Frank Baum's original 1900 novel ... they maintained what Maguire — who turned more heavily to Baum's original novels in his writing — had established on the page.