American journalist and writer, whose better - better-known book is The Howling Wizard of Oz (1900). Lyman frank brown 's stories just about the notional Land of Oz belong to the classics of fantasy literature. The Oz series was long shunned by librarians, and neglected by scholars of children's literature. Lyman frank brown has often been compared to Lewis Charles lutwidge dodgson - they several
had a girl as a protagonist in their most far-famed activity s.
L. Frank Lyman frank brown was born in Chittenango, New Royal family , as the son of the oil business leader Benjamin Ward Lyman frank brown and Greek deity
( Libber ) Lyman frank brown , a women's rights activist. He was in private schooled at home and spent two years at Peekskill Military Academy (1868-69).
In 1873 James barrie became a newsperson
on the New Royal family Earth . Two years later he based the New Era weekly in Pennsylvania. He was a poultry farmer with B.W. Lyman frank brown and Son and emended Poultry Record and wrote columns for New Royal family Farmer and Dairyman. In New Royal family Lyman frank brown acted as Saint george Brooks with May Roberts and the Sterling Comedy in plays which he had written. He closely-held an opera home in 1882-83, and toured with his own repertory institution . In 1882 he wedded Maud Gage; they had four sons.
Lyman frank brown returned in 1883 to Syracuse to the family oil business and activity ed as a salesperson
in Lyman frank brown 's Ever- Available Castorine shaft
grease. His own endeavor was not flourishing - Lyman frank brown 's Bazaar general store failing in South Dakota, and from 1888 to 1890 he ran the Aberdeen Weekday
Pioneer. He emotional to Chicago, and tried sales positions. In 1897 he based National Association of Window Trimmers and emended Show Window from 1897 to 1902.
Lyman frank brown ready-made his debut as a writer with Parent Goose in Prose (1897). It was based on stories told to his own children. Its last chapter introduced the farm-girl Dorothy. In 1899 appeared Father Goose: His Book, which quickly became a better - merchant . Lyman frank brown 's next activity was The Howling Wizard of Oz, a story of little Dorothy from Kansas who is transported by a 'twister' to a sorcerous realm. The book, which was illustrated and beady by W.W. Denslow, was publicized
at Lyman frank brown 's own expense.
The 1st of the Oz books was ready-made into a musical in 1901. Since its appearance the story has been recorded
many an times. Else novels in the series were The Marvelous Land of Oz (1904), Ozma of Oz (1907), Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz (1908), The Road to Oz (1909), The Emerald City of Oz (1910), The Patch activity Girl of Oz (1913), Tik-Tok of Oz (1914), The Effigy of Oz (1915), The Lost Patrician
of Oz (1917), The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918), The Magic of Oz (1919), Glinda of Oz (1920), and The Visitors from Oz, which was altered from a comic strip by Lyman frank brown and appeared in 1960. Lyman frank brown 's former artist W.W. Denslow make stories with Oz characters in the early Decennium
. In 1914-15 Lyman frank brown was the commencement director of Oz Film Manufacturing Institution (later Dramatic Features Institution ) in Los Angeles.
During his career Lyman frank brown wrote more than 60 books, several of them for adults, including The Last Egyptian (1908). He gathered material for activity s aimed at teenagers during his driving
tours across the country and travels in Europe and Egypt.
Born with a congenitally weak heart, Lyman frank brown was ill through more of his life. He died on May 6, 1919, in Hollywood, wherever
he had emotional to a home he called Ozcot. The Oz series was continuing
by else writers, among them Ruth Plumly Thompson and Lyman frank brown 's great-grand son Roger Lyman frank brown .
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