L. Frank Baum  

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Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

Works

• Mother Goose in Prose (1897)
• By the Candelabra's Glare (1898)
• Father Goose: His Book (1899)
• A New Wonderland (1900), revised as The Magical Monarch of Mo (1903)
• The Army Alphabet (1900)
• The Navy Alphabet (1900)
• American Fairy Tales (1901)
• The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1902)
• The Enchanted Island of Yew (1903)
• John Dough and the Cherub (1906)
• Boy Fortune Hunters book series (1908-1911)
• The Sea Fairies (1911)
• Sky Island (1912)
• Queen Zixi of Ix (1905)
• The Fate of a Crown (1905)
• Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea (1906)
• Daughters of Destiny (novel) (1906)
• The Last Egyptian (1907)

Land of Oz works

• The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
• The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904)
• Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz (1905, comic strip depicting 27 stories)
• The Woggle-Bug Book (1905)
• Ozma of Oz (1907)
• Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908)
• The Road to Oz (1909)
• The Emerald City of Oz (1910)
• The Patchwork Girl of Oz (1913)
• Little Wizard Stories of Oz (1913, collection of 6 short stories)
• Tik-Tok of Oz (1914)
• The Scarecrow of Oz (1915)
• Rinkitink in Oz (1916)
• The Lost Princess of Oz (1917)
• The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918)
• The Magic of Oz (1919, posthumously published)
• Glinda of Oz (1920, posthumously published)

1921's The Royal Book of Oz was posthumously attributed to Baum but was entirely the work of Ruth Plumly Thompson.