HOLLAND, Mich. — With the worldwide success of the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, one might think author L. Frank Baum always had success as a writer. However, that wasn't the case. Thankfully, his big break ...

Finishing touches were made Monday on a yellow brick road in the Humboldt Park neighborhood to commemorate L. Frank Baum, who lived in the neighborhood when he wrote “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” and ...

For L. Frank Baum, life was almost as much of a whirlwind as the cyclone in his best-seller, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” For as much as we know about Dorothy and the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman and ...

Lyman “L.” Frank Baum was the author of The Wizard of Oz, numerous other Oz installations, and scores of other books and story collections. He was also an amateur futurist, a writer who once remarked ...

Where were you when “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” came into your world? In elementary school by way of the library? On television, watching the MGM film with Judy Garland? In a Broadway theatre, ...

Fine, you can have your Tolkiens and your Rowlings and, yes, even your Stephenie Meyers. Especially your Stephenie Meyers. The author with the fantasy series that has done the most to populate popular ...

Of all the early American feminists, few were fiercer than Matilda Joslyn Gage. She was a co-founder of the National Woman Suffrage Association, a radical abolitionist who ran a station on the ...

A century after the death of author L. Frank Baum, this summer's San Diego County Fair, which runs through July 4, honors his most famous creation. “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” was published in 1900.

The wizard behind “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” will soon be getting his own movie. Author L. Frank Baum, who created Dorothy Gale, the Cowardly Lion and the Wicked Witch of the West, is the subject of ...