L. Frank Baum

L. Frank Baum

male, deceased (1919)
Lyman Frank Baum (May 15 1856-May 6 1919) was an American author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with...
Eric Shanower

Eric Shanower

male, 46 years old
Eric James Shanower (b. 1963) is an American comics artist and writer. His first major published works were the "Oz" graphic novels, which are "The...
John R. Neill

John R. Neill

male, deceased (1943)
John Rea Neill (November 12, 1877 - September 13, 1943) was a children's book illustrator primarily known for illustrating more than forty stories...
Ruth Plumly Thompson

Ruth Plumly Thompson

female, deceased (1976)
Ruth Plumly Thompson (1891-1976) was an American writer of children's stories. She is best known for continuing the children's fantasy Land of Oz...
Gregory Maguire

Gregory Maguire

male, 55 years old (Concord, Massachusetts, United States)
Gregory Maguire (born June 9, 1954 in Albany, New York) is an American author. He is the author of the novels "Wicked: The Life and Times of the...

Jack Snow

male, deceased (1956)
John Frederick "Jack" Snow (August 15, 1907 - July 13, 1956) was a radio writer and scholar of the works of L. Frank Baum. When Baum died in 1919,...

Eloise McGraw

female, deceased (2000)
Eloise Jarvis McGraw (December 9, 1915 - November 30, 2000) was an author of children's books. She was awarded the Newbery Honor three times in...
Philip José Farmer

Philip José Farmer

male, 91 years old
Philip José Farmer is an American author, principally known for his science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories. He was born in Terre H...
Roger S. Baum

Roger S. Baum

male, 71 years old
Roger Stanton Baum (born 1938) is a former banker and stockbroker, and currently (as of 2005) a children's author, residing in Branson, Missouri....

Alexander Melentyevich Volkov

male, deceased (1977)
Alexander Melentyevich Volkov (July 14, 1891 in Ust-Kamenogorsk - July 3, 1977) was a Russian novelist and mathematician. He wrote several...