ISBN: 9781592405589

Edition: First trade paperback printing.

Description: xvii, 329 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

• Family tree
• Introduction : on telling the life story of a storyteller
• Imagining October 9th, 1899
• In the palm of the Finger Lakes, 1848 to 1888
• The Great Plains, 1888 to 1891
• Crossing Lake Michigan, 1891 to 1903
• Living between landscapes, 1903 to 1910
• Hollywood, 1910 to 1919
• The afterlife, 1919 to 1939.

LCCN: 2009013708

Control Number: 754085

Subjects:

• Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
• Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919 -- Criticism and interpretation.
• Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919 -- Homes and haunts -- United States.
• Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919.
• Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919. Wizard of Oz.
• Children's stories, American -- History and criticism.
• Fantasy fiction, American -- History and criticism.
• Storytellers -- United States -- Biography.

Genre: Biographies.