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HOW DID CELEBRATED BOOKS GET THEIR NAMES? L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20050828
Author:GARY DEXTER
BAUM'S version went like this: one day, he was telling stories to a group of children about a magical land, a lion, a scarecrow and a tin woodman. One of the children asked what the land was called. Baum, searching for an answer, noticed a filing-cabinet next to him which had a drawer marked O-Z and replied "Oz''. He further claimed that this pivotal moment in children's literature occurred on May 7, 1898, since he remembered that a newspaper in the room carried the story of the US Navy's victory over the Spanish in Manila. The provenance of this account is good: it goes back to 1903, only ...
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