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Lisa Oz (née Lemole, [1] born July 20, 1963) is an American author and radio and television personality who has been an occasional co-host of The Dr. Oz Show. She has appeared on the Oprah and Friends XM radio telecasts. [2] Oz has authored or co-authored several books, including the You: The Owner's Manual series, [3] and is host of The Lisa ...
Lyman Frank Baum (/ b ɔː m /; [1] May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author best known for his children's fantasy books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, part of a series. In addition to the 14 Oz books, Baum penned 41 other novels (not including four lost, unpublished novels), 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least ...
Mehmet Cengiz Öz [a] (/ m ə ˈ m ɛ t ˈ dʒ ɛ ŋ ɡ ɪ z ɒ z / meh-MET JENG-gihz oz; Turkish: [mehˈmet dʒeɲˈɟiz øz]; born June 11, 1960), also known as Dr. Oz (/ ɒ z /), is an American television presenter, physician, author, professor emeritus of cardiothoracic surgery at Columbia University, and former political candidate who is President Donald Trump's nominee to serve as ...
Cap'n Bill and Trot also play significant roles in the later Oz books The Lost Princess of Oz (1917), The Magic of Oz (1919) and Jack Snow's The Magical Mimics in Oz (1946). Baum borrowed from one of his own earlier characters, Naboth Perkins in Sam Steele's Adventures on Land and Sea (1906), to create Cap'n Bill. [4]
The success of his "Oz" books allowed him to leave his banking job in 1990, and become a full-time children's author. Sometimes Baum's earlier material is reworked in his later books; Long Ears And Tailspin In Candy Land's "Candy Land" reappears in his 2000 Toto book, for example.
The Oz books form a book series that begins with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and relates the fictional history of the Land of Oz. Oz was created by author L. Frank Baum , who went on to write fourteen full-length Oz books. [ 1 ]
Oz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Amos Oz (1939–2018), Israeli author; Avraham Oz (born 1944), Israeli theatre professor; Daphne Oz (born 1986), American author, chef, and television host; Doğan Öz (1934–1978), Turkish prosecutor assassinated in the line of duty; Frank Oz (born 1944), American film director, actor ...
He has also written and illustrated a full-length Oz novel, The Giant Garden of Oz, and a collection of short Oz stories, The Salt Sorcerer of Oz. As an illustrator, he has worked on books by Oz historians, including The Wicked Witch of Oz by Rachel Cosgrove Payes , The Rundelstone of Oz by Eloise Jarvis McGraw , The Runaway in Oz by John R ...