American Fairy Tales — Lyman Frank Baum

1856 1919 He was an American author of children s books best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz He wrote thirteen novel sequals nine other fantays novels and a host of other works 55 novels in total plus four lost novels 82 short stories over 200 poems an unknown number of scripts and many miscellaneous writings and made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen His works predicted such century later commonplaces as television laptop computers The Master Key wireless telephones Tik Tok of Oz and the ubiquity of advertising on clothing Aunt Jane s Nieces at Work img src https s3 eu west 1 amazonaws com dia kitadagitim ckeditor_assets pictures 53 content_1_original_original jpg alt height 15 width 15 font size 1 color white font img