L. Frank Baum

Birthday: May 15, 1956

L. Frank Baum is one of the most fondly remembered of all children's book authors, for -The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and the entire Land of Oz as depicted in a dozen subsequent books. He was also one of the most successful authors of children's books of his era, and among the very first in America to bring his own works to the screen; indeed, he worked as a screenwriter, director, and ...more