L. Frank Baum was born in Chittenango, New York, on May 15, 1856.
At the age of fifteen, Baum’s father bought him a small printing
press on which he and his brother soon produced their own
newspaper, The Rose Lawn Home Journal. By his late teens, Baum had
developed an interest in theater and was made the manager of his
father’s opera houses. He quickly took to playwriting, writing, and
acting in his first major literary work, The Maid of Arran.
Throughout the course of his career, Baum wrote more than eighty
novels for children. He is best known for The Wonderful Wizard of
Oz and its many sequels.
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