About the Author

L. Frank Baum is the author of 14 Oz books, as well as many other classics of American fantasy.

Michael Patrick Hearn's first Oz annotation, written when he was 21, was featured on the front page of the New York Times Book Review. He lives in New York City.

Reviews

"I have never known or heard of an American man or woman who has started to read ?The Wonderful Wizard of Oz? and put it down without finishing it." -- James Thurber "Seeing ?The Wizard of Oz? made a writer of me." -- Salman Rushdie