American author of children's books (1856–1919)
Lyman Frank Baum (15 May 1856 – 6 May 1919) was an American author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with illustrator William Wallace Denslow, of one of the most popular books in American children's literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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Birth Name:
Lyman Frank Baum
Alternative Names:
Captain Hugh Fitzgerald
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Suzanne Metcalf
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Schuyler Staunton
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Edith Van Dyne
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George Brooks
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Louis F. Baum
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Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald
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Pete
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Dugout
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Floyd Akers
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Laura Bancroft
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John Estes Cooke
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When I was a boy I was tremendously interested in scarecrows. They always seemed to my childish imagination as just about to wave their arms, straighten up and stalk across the field on their long legs. I lived on a farm, you know. It was natural then that my first character in this animated life series was the scarecrow, on whom I have taken revenge for all the mystic feeling he once inspired.