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From: unixcorn@dcc1.UUCP (math.c)
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Subject: Re: Oz books
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Date: Tue, 25-Jun-85 16:40:17 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 25 16:40:17 1985
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In article <2352@topaz.ARPA> geacc022%timevx@cit-hamlet.arpa writes:
>> Another little known fact, visible if you go to a B. Dalton
>> bookstore and look at the recent republishing of Oz books...most
>> were not written by L. Frank Baum, but by another author, and
>> published under Baum's name.
>    My understanding was that L. Frank Baum wrote the original 14
>books, which were recently republished by Del Rey, and that others
>wrote more books after he died under their own names.  I have heard,
>but don't know for sure, that Del Rey is planning on republishing
>some of the books written by Ruth Plumly Stapleton (sp?).  I hope
>                                         ^^^^^^^^^
                                          Thompson
  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
the phrase Founded on and Continuing the Famous OZ Stories by L. Frank Baum.
She wrote 19 books in the series (5 more than Baum)

  Other OZ authors include John R. Neill (long time illustrator of OZ books)
                           Jack Snow
                           Rachel R. Cosgrove
                           Eloise Jarvis McGraw and Lauren McGraw Wagner

Anyone out there have a copy of 'The Royal Book of OZ' they are interested
in selling?  I have a spare copy of the 'Hungry Tiger' to trade.
-- 

             unixcorn  (alias m. gould)

                   "there's a unicorn in the garden and he's eating a lily"
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