Are you ready to follow the yellow brick road?
Lyman Frank Baum was born in Chittenango, New York in 1856 and had
seven brothers and sisters. Until the age of twelve Baum was
privately tutored at home and, beginning in 1869 he spent two years
at a military academy. After various jobs including journalist and
actor, Baum wrote his first novel Goose in Prose in 1897. He went
on to write over sixty books, including, in 1900, his most famous
novel, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. L. Frank Baum was
married with four children and died in 1919.
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