The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Lyman
Frank Baum was born in Chittenango, NY. He never used his first name since
he preferred Frank. He was the son of wealthy parents and had a happy childhood,
but Frank was a dreamer, and for a while was not much of a success at anything.
He tried acting, selling machine oil and crockery, managing a department store,
and newspaper editing and reporting, but nothing seemed to work well for him,
or hold his interest for long. He finally started writing when his mother-in-law
encouraged him to write down the tales he'd been telling his four sons and
their friends for years. Although he initially had trouble finding a publisher,
his works eventually caught the attention of the public, and he was able to
finally make a decent living. Although he also was interested in theatre production
and the motion picture industry, he kept on writing books for the young at
heart until his death at Ozcot, his Hollywood home.
Like most of his early writings, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz started
off as a story he was telling his sons and their friends in 1898. At that time
in Frank's Chicago neighborhood, a number of children would come to the Baum's
house to listen to his stories in the evening. He came to Dorothy meeting the
Scarecrow when one of + his listeners asked, "Mr. Baum, where did they live?" He
thought about it for a moment, and replied, "The Land of Oz," and continued
the story. Later that night, his wife, who had also been listening as she worked
on her sewing, convinced Frank to write the story down, and he quickly produced
a manuscript. His friend W. W. Denslow agreed to illustrate it, and they tried
to find a publisher. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published May 15,
1900, and became the biggest selling children's book of the year.
Frank
had many ideas for other stories, and he tried to tell them. But none of his
books sold as well or generated as much interest as The Wizard of Oz.
The success of the 1902 stage show also made Oz a recognized name. So when
he went to a new publisher in 1904, the first book they wanted from him was
a new book about Oz. Originally entitled The Further Adventures of the Scarecrow
and Tin Woodman, the publishers wanted Oz in the title, so it became The
Marvelous Land of Oz. While this kept readers happy for a while, they wanted
to know more about Dorothy and the Cowardly Lion (neither of whom had appeared
in the new book), so Frank wrote a third Oz book, Ozma of Oz, and then
some more ideas for other Oz books came to him, some from his fans' letters.
He tried to end the series with The Emerald City of Oz in 1910, but
bankruptcy and the failure of his new books to sell very well prompted him
to return to Oz in 1913, and from then on he wrote an Oz book every year for
his demanding readers for the rest of his life. (The Magic of Oz was
in production when he died, and Glinda of Oz was published posthumously
a year later.)
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