Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site watdaisy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!watnot!watdaisy!gjerawlins From: gjerawlins@watdaisy.UUCP (Gregory J.E. Rawlins) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Oz books Message-ID: <7334@watdaisy.UUCP> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 02:53:14 EDT Article-I.D.: watdaisy.7334 Posted: Thu Jun 27 02:53:14 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Jun-85 07:40:00 EDT References: <2352@topaz.ARPA> <132@dcc1.UUCP> Reply-To: gjerawlins@watdaisy.UUCP (Gregory J.E. Rawlins) Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 19 Summary: In article <132@dcc1.UUCP> unixcorn@dcc1.UUCP (math.c) writes: >[....] > When L.Frank Baum died in 1919, Reilly and Lee (the publishers of his >books) decided to find another author who could continue the one book a >year cycle that was so profitable for them. Ruth Plumly Thompson fit the >bill perfectly, she had grown up on the OZ books, was already an author >of childrens books and she needed the money to support her mother and >invalid sister. The first book she wrote was published under Baum's and >her name (to promote continuity) but was all her own work. Later they used >[....] > unixcorn (alias m. gould) The "Reader's Guide to Fantasy" - Searls, Meacham & Franklin pg 27 states that "The Royal Book of Oz" (her first) was a work up by her of notes that Baum left his demise, so the accreditation would be proper (that is if this is correct - i have no information to the contrary). -- Gregory J.E. Rawlins, Department of Computer Science, U. Waterloo {allegra|clyde|linus|inhp4|decvax}!watmath!watdaisy!gjerawlins