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Lyman Frank Baum was born on May 15, 1856 in Chittenargo, New York. He began his writing career as a teenage reporter for the New York World. Within a couple of years, he became a publisher of a small town newspaper in Pennsylvania. As a youngster, Baum acted in road companies and wrote several plays. Most of these plays were musical comedies and one of them was even produced in New York. After a brief romance with the stage, he returned to journalism. Finally, he settled down in Chicago where he founded a trade journal which helped him to support his family consisting of his wife and four sons. He also continued to write fiction. His famous book The Wizard of Oz was first published in the year 1900. It became so popular among its readers that Baum wrote as many as thirteen sequels to the original story. In addition, he wrote a number of books for girls, under the pen-name of Edith Van Dyne.