L. Frank Baum was a sickly boy who was educated mostly at home, where he became a voracious reader. He soon combined this love of literature with an ability to create a lasting classic.

Wicked is a global phenomenon with a stage play and box office blockbuster film, and now, a new prequel book attempts to tie ...

Gregory Maguire extends his fictional expansion of L. Frank Baum’s Oz, traveling back to the childhood of the antiheroic ...

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 ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/american-oz-l-frank-baum/ L. Frank Baum was an American actor, businessman and writer. He published The Wonderful ...

The color of that central plume isn’t the rusty brown of wildfire smoke but an artificial black, like burning tires or the “SURRENDER DOROTHY” message the Wicked Witch writes across the sky with her ...

Elphaba (a mongrelization of original author L. Frank Baum’s name). But this curious makeover falsifies everything that made The Wizard of Oz wonderful: its clarity about good vs. evil and the ...

The Union Local High School Drama Club will present its production of “The Wizard of Oz” on March 27, 28 and 29. Based on L.

Project Ozma was named after the queen of L. Frank Baum's imaginary land of Oz -- a place "very far away, difficult to reach, and populated by strange and exotic beings." The stars chosen by Drake for ...

The musical, adapted by John Kane for the Royal Shakespeare Company, is based on L. Frank Baum’s 1900 novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" and the iconic 1939 MGM film. Featuring timeless songs ...