Frank baum biography
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The following was origanally published in the Philadelphia North American (3 October ). Reprinted in The Baum Bugle, Spring
WOGGLEBUG’S CREATOR TELLS OF INSPIRATION
"I was out on a California beach," said L. Frank Baum. "There was a pretty little girl I was very much interested in beside me. She was making sand pies and enjoying herself immensely, when suddenly she saw one of those little sand crabs, fiddler crabs I suppose they are.
‘Oh, what is it?’ she said.
‘A wogglebug,’ I said, unthinkingly, using the first term that popped into my head.
‘The child was delighted and ran to her parents shouting: ‘Oh, see what I’ve got! It’s a wogglebug. Mr. Baum says it’s a wogglebug.’
"The name was so catchy that the same evening my wife told me I should put the Wogglebug in ‘The Marvelous Land of Oz.’ The book was one-third written and Jack Pumpkinhead was the hero, but I brought in the Wogglebug right away.
"After that H.M. Wogglebug T.E. was the hero and has become my most popular character."
In this little anecdote the creator of th
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L. Frank Baum
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L. Frank Baum
L. Frank Baum | |
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L. Frank Baum circa | |
| Born | ()May 15, Chittenango, New York |
| Died | May 6, () (aged&#;62) Hollywood, California |
| Other&#;names | George Brooks, Louis F. Baum, Laura Bancroft, Suzanne Metcalf, Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald, Schuyler Staunton, Edith Van Dyne, Floyd Akers, John Estes Cooke |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, Newspaper editor, Actor, Screenwriter, movie Producer |
| Spouse | Maud Gage |
| Children | Frank Joslyn Baum Robert Stanton Baum Harry Neal Baum Kenneth Gage Baum |
Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, – May 6, ) was an Americanwriter of children's books during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He is best known for his most famous and popular book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (), and other Oz books that followed it.
Early life
[change | change source]Baum was born in a small town in Chittenango, New York. He was a member of a large family. He started writing as a child. When his father bought his children a simple printing press, Baum and a younger brother wrote and printed a small local newspaper. As a young man, Baum wrote and staged plays. Sometimes he wrote songs for his plays and starred in them himself. He also tried many other careers. He was a travelling salesman and a storekeeper for a time. He started a newspaper