"I wouldn't ask anyone to take this dreadful form," said Woot; "it wouldn't be right, you know. I've been a monkey for some time, now, and I don't li… - L. Frank Baum

"I wouldn't ask anyone to take this dreadful form," said Woot; "it wouldn't be right, you know. I've been a monkey for some time, now, and I don't like it. It makes me ashamed to be a beast of this sort when by right of birth I'm a boy; so I'm sure it would be wicked to ask anyone else to take my place." They

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About L. Frank Baum

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 Suzanne Metcalf Schuyler Staunton Edith Van Dyne George Brooks Louis F. Baum Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald Pete Dugout Floyd Akers Laura Bancroft John Estes Cooke
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