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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 In addition to the 14 Oz books, Baum penned 41 other novels (not including four lost, unpublished novels), 83 short stories, over 200 poems, and at least ...
Cartoonist William Allen Rogers in 1906 sees the political uses of Oz: he depicts William Randolph Hearst as Scarecrow stuck in his own Ooze in Harper's Weekly. Political interpretations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz include treatments of the modern fairy tale (written by L. Frank Baum and first published in 1900) as an allegory or metaphor for the political, economic, and social events of ...
During the period surrounding the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre, author L. Frank Baum wrote two editorials about Native Americans. Five days after the killing of the Lakota Sioux holy man , Sitting Bull , Baum wrote, "The proud spirit of the original owners of these vast prairies inherited through centuries of fierce and bloody wars for their ...
What started as a modest idea — reimagining the backstory of the Wicked Witch of the West from L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz ... to be racist and hegemonic and responsible for the ...
Maguire’s “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West”— a revisionist take on L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” — originally published in 1995 and was ...
The Woggle-Bug Book features the broad ethnic humor that was accepted and popular in its era, and which Baum employed in various works. [7] The Woggle-Bug, who favors flashy clothes with bright colors (he dresses in "gorgeous reds and yellows and blues and greens" and carries a pink handkerchief), falls in love with a gaudy "Wagnerian plaid" dress that he sees on a mannequin in a department ...
The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer was a weekly newspaper edited and published by L. Frank Baum between 1890 and 1891. [1] The first issue of the weekly appeared on January 25, 1890, and the paper was based in Aberdeen, South Dakota. [1] [2] Baum bought a local paper, The Dakota Pioneer, from John H. Drake and renamed it as The Aberdeen Saturday ...
You might be surprised by how many popular movie quotes you're remembering just a bit wrong. 'The Wizard of Oz' Though most people say 'Looks like we're not in Kansas anymore,' or 'Toto, I don't think