The father of the wizard of oz

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Lyman Frank Baum was the man who had written the Wizard of Oz. The book began when his children asked him to tell them a story. He told of a little Kansas girl who was carried away by a cyclone. After he was done he wrote the story down because it seemed really good. The name Wizard of Oz came when the children asked for the name of the town where Dorothy was carried, Baum looked around the room and saw a file cabinet with the label O-Z and that's how the story began. The next day he took his notes to W. W. Denslow who was a newspaper artist, to ask him to make some illustrations for the book. Then the two of them took the book to some publishers but no one would print the book. At last they came apon George Hill who agreed to publish the book on the terms that Baum and Denslow would pay for the printing. They agreed and paid for the printing with the royalties from the Father Goose books that Baum had written earlier. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was published on August 1, 1900. The Oz book became one of the best sellers of all time. It was later made into

Many of the characters in the Oz books came from Baum real life experiences as a child, such as Billina the chicken and the scarecrow. In 1881 Baum married Maud Gage. Soon the two had a child. Then after a failing business Maud and Frank moved to Aberdeen, South Dakota where there was a gold rush. There they opened a little store called Baums Bazaar. There Baum would sit outside the store ant tell stories to children ignoring customers. This business too soon failed. At this time they had three children. After that Baum, had started a newspaper called The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer, his newspaper was filled with tall tales most of which he had written. He had a rival with some other editor, which turned into a duel with an angered subscriber. In 1891 the Pioneer had also failed and the family moved to Chicago. In Chicago Baum took jobs as a newspaper editor and a traveling salesman. Later Maud's mother moved in with them and she urged Baum to publish his fairy tails. After being urged by the two women he wrote the Mother Goose rhymes. The publishers r

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