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Article: Behind the curtain: he created a modern fairy tale, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but L. Frank Baum remains a mystery.(The Real Wizard of Oz: The Life and Times of L. Frank Baum )(Biography)
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- August 1, 2009
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L. Frank Baum was born in New York's Finger Lakes region five years before the Civil War began. When he shuffled off this mortal coil in 1919, a decade after building a dream home he called Ozcot in a hamlet named Hollywood, the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was buried at a then-spanking-new Forest Lawn, where he belongs as not many Americans can be said to be long. Maybe you can't see Disneyland from Glendale--or even pick out Steven Spielberg's house, for all I know, not to mention wherever Pink lives. But nobody can see the Capitol, the White House, or the onetime HQ of the National Woman's Party from Mount Vernon.
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