Behind The Scenes Secrets: The Wizard Of Oz

L. Frank Baum And Oz

L. Frank Baum wroteThe Wonderful Wizard of Ozin 1900. Twenty years before that, he made a living as a specialty chicken breeder. Frank was said to have been inspiredfromhis hard childhood which took place during a drought in South Dakota. Frank gave Dorothy her name foraparticularly sentimental reason. His niece died when she was an infant and her name was Dorothy Louise Gage. Frank came up with the name Oz after he looked at his filing cabinets which had been organized by alphabet – from A-N and O-Z. Frank also wrote a variety of other things throughout his life including non-fiction works about stamp collecting. He also strongly supported the women’s suffrage movement, which says a lot about his character. Frank went on to publish even more works about Oz, including 17 sequels with three of them being published posthumously.