![]() Before he became a writer, Baum earned extra money by selling fireworks. His parents bought him a cheap printing press and he set up his own publication, The Rose Lawn Home Journal, as well as launching a magazine for himself and his fellow stamp- collectors. His first published book in 1886, however, was a brief treatise on ‘the mating, rearing, and management’ of a breed of chicken (Baum was a poultry fancier). ![]() ![]() He disliked the horrors in many children’s fairy tales – notably those by the Brothers Grimm – and his most famous work was motivated, in part, by a desire to provide children with some horror-free fairy-tale fiction. Lyman Frank Baum (1856-1919) was a physically weak child who had a heart attack while still a youth, after his parents attempted to toughen him up by sending him to a military academy. ![]()
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