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The real wizard of Oz: L. Frank Baum

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Born Lyman Frank Baum (no wonder he went by Frank) near Oneida, N.Y., in 1856, the author of “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” and the books that followed started out infatuated by the theater. He and his wife moved west to the Dakota Territory in the 1880s, where he failed to succeed at business; then they moved to Chicago, where his writing career began.

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