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Classic Authors: L. Frank Baum - Page 3


© Susan Jensen
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Feb 22, 2000


Frank's oldest son, Frank Jr., and others continued the Oz legacy by writing and producing more Oz books, plays and radio shows. However, none of those mediums achieved as much success as the 1939 MGM movie, The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland as Dorothy. In fact, most people probably know the movie better than the book.

Although L. Frank Baum's work has been criticized as overly-sentimental, racist, and too fantastical, it still endures. When his books were banned in schools and libraries, children still found them. Oz lives on because children love to immerse themselves in a fantasy land, where animals talk and a little girl struggles to find her way home.

(Note: I used a terrific book as my resource: L. Frank Baum: Royal Historian of Oz (1992) by Angelica Shirley Carpenter and Jean Shirley.)

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4.   Dec 3, 2004 3:44 PM
I am so suprised nowhere does it mention Mr. Baums connection to Theosophy. He joined that wonderful and enlightened soociety in the late 70's or 80's I con't have the date at hand. He was a metaphys ...

-- posted by illumina
3.   Jan 4, 2003 1:31 PM
In Baum's defense, he was raised in the early 1900's, a time when racism was pretty common. His books do not specifically disrespect any race, they simply do not include them, and therefore should not ...

-- posted by whatintheworld94
2.   Sep 20, 2001 5:29 PM
The reason that this information wasn't included is because, quite frankly, I never saw it mentioned anywhere on the Web sites that I used in my research. In order to publish a weekly article, I must ...

-- posted by SusanJ_3
1.   Aug 31, 2001 3:39 PM
I was simply wondering how come the review of L. Frank Baum's life and times neglected to mention his time as editor of the Aberdeen Post Dispatch, where on two separate occasions he published editori ...

-- posted by stardust535



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