By the age of 17, Baum established a second amateur journal called The Stamp Collector, printed an 11-page pamphlet called Baum's Complete Stamp Dealers' Directory, and started a stamp dealership with friends. The brothers published several issues of the journal, including advertisements from local businesses, which they gave to family and friends for free. He had always been close to his younger brother Henry (Harry) Clay Baum, who helped in the production of The Rose Lawn Home Journal.
īaum started writing early in life, possibly prompted by his father buying him a cheap printing press. From the age of 12, he spent two miserable years at Peekskill Military Academy but, after being severely disciplined for daydreaming, he had a possibly psychogenic heart attack and was allowed to return home. Frank was a sickly, dreamy child, tutored at home with his siblings. Rose Lawn was located in Mattydale, New York. Baum grew up on his parents' expansive estate called Rose Lawn, which he fondly recalled as a sort of paradise. His father succeeded in many businesses, including barrel-making, oil drilling in Pennsylvania, and real estate. Young Baum in the Peekskill Military Academy "Lyman" was the name of his father's brother, but he always disliked it and preferred his middle name "Frank". He was the seventh of nine children of Cynthia Ann (née Stanton) and Benjamin Ward Baum, only five of whom survived into adulthood. He had German, Scots-Irish, and English ancestry. His works anticipated such later commonplaces as television, augmented reality, laptop computers ( The Master Key), wireless telephones ( Tik-Tok of Oz), women in high-risk and action-heavy occupations ( Mary Louise in the Country), and the ubiquity of clothes advertising ( Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work).īaum was born in Chittenango, New York, in 1856 into a devout Methodist family. While continuing his writing, among his final projects he sought to establish a film studio focused on children's films in Los Angeles, California. They then moved to Chicago, where he worked as a newspaper reporter and published children's literature, coming out with the first Oz book in 1900. He and his wife opened a store in South Dakota and he edited and published a newspaper. He made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen the 1939 adaptation of the first Oz book became a landmark of 20th-century cinema.īorn and raised in upstate New York, Baum moved west after an unsuccessful stint as a theater producer and playwright. In addition to the 14 Oz books, Baum penned 41 other novels (not including four lost, unpublished novels), 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least 42 scripts.
Lyman Frank Baum ( / b ɔː m/ – May 6, 1919) was an American author best known for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series.
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