Frank L. Baum, who wrote the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, wrote a 14-book series about the wonderous land of Oz, and only ...

In short, people are finding Oz everywhere but in the original books by L. Frank Baum — who invented the place in "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900) and its 13 sequels (after his death in 1919 ...

In short, people are finding Oz everywhere but in the original books by L. Frank Baum — who invented the place in "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900) and its 13 sequels (after his death in 1919 ...

The Wicked Witch of the West, drawn by W. W. Denslow, in "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." ... most of the censorship attempts for the Oz books centered around anti-communist sentiment," Grunzke said.

That book, moreover, is the seedbed for 13 more volumes by the “Royal Historian of Oz” (with subsequent illustrations by John R. Neill), as well as many additional adventures recounted by Ruth ...

L. Frank Baum—former chicken rancher, traveling salesman, and theater manager—had already published two successful children’s books when he started The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1898.

Loosely based on the original 1900 novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" written by L. Frank Baum, "Wicked" tells the background story of the witches we meet in Oz during Dorothy's famous visit.

In 1925, six years after Baum’s death, a movie of “The Wizard of Oz” was released; according to Hearn in one of his sterner moods, it was “totally lacking the magic of Baum’s book ...

In fact, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (the original published title) was, in its own way, highly sophisticated. The witty artwork of W.W. Denslow, in the original edition, was a striking ...

Both have their origins in Gregory Maguire’s 1995 revisionist prequel, which suggested events that might have shaped the characters in L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” ...

Based on L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” series of books, the Land of Oz theme park opened in North Carolina to enthusiastic reviews.