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AN OVERDUE INTRODUCTION TO THE TRUE WIZARD OF OZ.(DAILY BREAK)(Review)
From: The Virginian Pilot
Date: 20030202
Author:
Byline: MARK BURGESS
L. FRANK BAUM
Creator of Oz
KATHARINE M. ROGERS
St. Martin's Press. 318 pp. $27.95.
MORE THAN 100 years have passed since L. Frank Baum's ``The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' went to press, yet only now - with the publication of Katharine Rogers' ``L. Frank Baum: Creator of Oz'' - has his definitive biography been written.
Why the delay? The literary world's ambivalence toward Baum, Rogers writes. Professors of children's literature turn up their noses at the mere mention of his name. One academic actually disparages Baum partly for his ...
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