Celebrate L. Frank Baum's birthday, the 150th anniversary of his timeless book, and new historical marker coming soon to the spot of his boyhood Mattydale home on Saturday.

Curiously, her signature song, "Over the Rainbow," was ... Mayer to acquire the rights to L. Frank Baum's book and played a crucial role in the casting of the characters. The first public showing ...

If there's one story musical theatre seems to particularly love, it's L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. The timeless story of Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion's ...

Dorothy Gale may have gotten her name from Dorothy Gage, the infant niece of Baum’s wife, Maud. She died in November 1898 as Baum was writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. 5. Baum based his book ...

L. Frank Baum, c. 1911 via Wikipedia Public Domain, George Steckel, Los Angeles Times photographic archive, UCLA Library. “And every day her loveliness, shines pure, without a flaw ...

The author L. Frank Baum set the novel, published in 1900, in a fantasy land that shares core American values: self-sufficiency, personal reinvention, the exploration of wider frontiers.

At the turn of the century when children’s literature was rife with moral lessons and cautionary violence, L. Frank Baum set about writing a great American children’s story, free from the ...

MATTYDALE, N.Y. — "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" by L. Frank Baum was published on May 17, 1900. Now, 125 years later, the Hamlet of Mattydale will honor the life and works of the author with a ...

But its true origins, of course, are in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum’s deathless fantasy classic, which introduces both the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda, the Good Witch of ...

No, I'm not referring to that dubious old tale that L. Frank Baum wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz as an allegory about the evils of the gold standard. As Michael Patrick Hearn pointed out long ...