THE FIRST ANIMALS HE WROTE ABOUT WERE CHICKENS.īaum was a sickly child and his father indulged his hobbies, including buying him a small printing press that he used to produce a newspaper. In honor of Baum, Chittenango holds an annual festival of all things Oz called Oz-Stavaganza.
Lyman Frank Baum was born on in Chittenango, New York, to a wealthy family and raised on an estate called Rose Lawn in Mattydale, New York, just outside Syracuse.
HIS HOMETOWN HOSTS AN OZ-FEST (BUT NOT THAT OZZFEST). In honor of his 162nd birthday, here are 15 facts about the actual man behind the curtain. Frank Baum published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a book that has never been out of print and that has been produced as movies, theatrical plays and musicals, and led to further cultural phenomena like The Wiz and Wicked.
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