L. Frank Baum

also wrote under the names: * Edith van Dyne, * Floyd Akers, * Schuyler Staunton, * John Estes Cooke, * Suzanne Metcalf, * Laura Bancroft, * Louis F. Baum, * Captain Hugh FitzgeraldLyman Frank Baum, a known American, wrote especially The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) and 13 other stories, including Ozma of Oz (1907). Lyman Frank Baum, an author, actor, and independent filmmaker alongside illustrator William Wallace Denslow best created the today simply most popular books in literature of children. A plethora of other works include sequels, nine other fantasies, and 55 novels in total, 82 short prose, more than two hundred poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous, and he made numerous attempts to bring his works to the stage and screen.