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The films were directed by J. Farrell MacDonald, with casts that included Violet Macmillan, Vivian Reed, Mildred Harris, Juanita Hansen, Pierre Couderc, Mai Welles, Louise Emmons, J. Charles Haydon, and early appearances by Harold Lloyd and Hal Roach.
Baum becomes an author
After Baum's newspaper failed in 1891, he, Maud, and their four sons moved to Chicago, where Baum took a job reporting for the Evening Post. For several years, he edited a magazine for advertising agencies focused on window displays in stores.
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All links retrieved March 7, 2025. It was the basis for a 1978 film by the same title starring Diana Ross as an adult Dorothy. Later, the park began to be restored to hold yearly re-openings, known as the Autumn at Oz Festival. Frank Baum, an American author best known for writing The Wizard of Oz (1900), wrote 55 other novels, 83 short stories, and over 200 poems.
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"There was a pretty little girl I was very much interested in beside me. The political commentary in Baum's work has been extensively analyzed. He was able to quit his door-to-door sales job because of its moderate success. The book was a success, becoming the best-selling children's book of the year.
Baum was a prolific writer, who in addition to children's books, wrote plays, short stories, and fantasy under various pseudonyms, was coaxed into writing sequel after sequel to his Wonderful Wizard of Oz book by the incessant pleas of his youthful fans.
My wife begged me to write them down; told me they were much better than lots that were printed. That’s what started Mr. Baum on his way to becoming the most widely read author in the United States today.
He has written altogether sixteen books of fairy tales, every one of which is now selling.
"The Wizard of Oz" has sold 780,000 copies, the largest sale on record, and one which shows no sign of stopping.
His income from his books is larger than that of the President of the United States.
But better than all this, Mr.
Baum thinks, is that he has opened up new fairy lands for children, peopled with new characters, grotesque enough to catch a child’s errant family, funny enough to amuse them, humanized enough to make them lovable.
"WHEN I WAS A BOY"
It was an odd idea thought the interviewer to endow such inanimate objects with life, and as a final question he asked Mr.
Baum the origin of his curious beings who wander through his pages. Retrieved September 26, 2023.
Entire classes, where school teachers have read my stories, have written to me. He raised Hamburg chickens, established a trade journal, The Poultry Record and wrote a book, the complete history and guide for raising Hamburg chickens.
Baum published his first book, Mother Goose in Prose in 1897, a collection of Mother Goose rhymes written as prose stories, in which he modernized the characters.
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