L. Frank Baum

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Lyman Frank Baum May 15 1856 May 6 1919 was an American author of childrens books best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz He wrote thirteen novel sequels nine other fantasy novels and a host of other works 55 novels in total plus four lost novels 82 short stories over 200 poems an unknown number of scripts and many miscellaneous writings and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen His works predicted such centurylater commonplaces as television laptop computers The Master Key wireless telephones TikTok of Oz women in high risk actionheavy occupations Mary Louise in the Country and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing Aunt Janes Nieces at Work Description above from the Wikipedia article L Frank Baum licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia