Biography of Baum

Limen Frank Baum - the writer was born about the writer: on May 15, the world -famous classic of children's literature, whose books were filmed dozens of times, gave rise to many imitations and parodies. Frank, born on May 15, had very little chance of surviving up to three years. The doctors in the first year of his life did not hide the truth from his parents: the baby has an innate heart defect.

And only a calm, measured and happy life can save him, preferably not in a big city, but rural areas. By the time of birth, Frank Benjamin was Bondar, made oil barrels. It is precisely those that were called “barrels” due to the fact that there were so much oil in ... they were placed. But the seventh child became like a happy talisman - soon the dad Baum from the Bondar became the seller of black gold, and his affairs went uphill so swiftly that he became rich for a short time.

But the children were his headache. Four died, not even for several years, and five, in the end, became adults, but, alas and ah, only Frank lived to the advanced years. But then, at the dawn of the youth of Benjamin and Cynthia, it seemed to them that their main task was to help the patient the seventh child. They didn’t blow off the dust from him. He lived in the ranch, although his father had his own house in New York, he devoted most of his time to walks, and he equally endured both heat and cold.

Ben could allow the teachers to come to Frank himself, he did not go to school. He was such books that he soon defeated the whole not at all a small library of his father. Most of all, the boy liked Charles Dickens and William Tekikeri. Dickens at this point was still alive, so all the new items that came out of the pen of the classic were immediately delivered to Frank.

By the way, such a hobby of son was the subject of Ben's special pride. He said to everyone: “My Frank clicks these books like nuts! Father came to the room to his son in the morning and brought him a very large gift. When the boy turned the paper, he gasped: it was a printing machine! Quite a rarity at that time. Needless to say, on the same day, Frank with his younger brother already delighted the parents of the first family newspaper.

And then the newspaper, later out of the magazine, began to be released regularly. In addition to the family chronicle, there was also fiction - Frank often wrote fairy tales for the younger ones ... The restless Frank at the age of 17 began to release a completely adult magazine. Since his second after the books was philateli, the pages of the new edition were dedicated to the history of brands, various auctions, as well as travel.

Frank himself was truly restless - who he just did not work in his youth. He started with a reporter, was the director of the bookstore, studied at a military school for two years, where he experienced an almost physical aversion to the drill. Then he decided to become a farmer, raised a poultry, and at the same time released a magazine dedicated to poultry farming. But soon this rather “unaesthetic” work was tired of him.

He returned to the city, became the producer of a number of theaters, several times went on stage, playing in performances. He was easy to words, and great erudition and wellness made him an interesting, memorable interlocutor. Ben and Cynthia were very proud of the writer's parents, believing that their Frank would not be lost in life. Moreover, he was purposeful and stubborn enough, the Scottish-Irlandic sourdough affected ...

In the year, Frank fell in love with a charming mod. But, firstly, the girl stated that she would not go for anyone else except Frank, and, secondly, he was, after all, he was the son of a wealthy oil magnate, so he could well ensure the future of their daughter. If they knew that the stubborn of Frankie would rather go to ask for alms than to take money from his parents, they would probably have thought.

But the young Baum adhered to such positions that he should take place himself, because his father also once began from scratch ... Be that as it may, Frank and Mod were married. They had four children, for whom, Baum, actually began to write fairy tales. Rather, they were at first oral. Needless to say, the children listened to Frank with open mouths, because he really loved to compose good fairy tales, in his stories always good took up over evil.

And, in addition, Frank admitted that the mod that he really did not want the children to study life on the “evil tales of the Grimm brothers”. The first book, which Frank officially released in the year, was "Tales of Uncle Gusak." In memory of how he raised Christmas geese in his youth. The children really liked the fairy tales, but since the elders were no longer babies, they pointed to the parent a certain inconsistency.

Like, we want to know about magical adventures, and the uncle Gusak is “tied” to the bird courtyard. Frank, together with his family, moved to South Dakota in the year, where he worked in the newspaper. Then she moved to the family to Chicago, Frank Baum and there began to work as a journalist.In the year, he published his first book “The Tales of Uncle Gusak”, and a year later, in the year, the best -famous Frank Bahaum book “The Wizard of Oz” The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a story about a little tornado to the magical land of the retelling of A.

Volkov under the name “Wizard” was published. Emerald City ". The staging of the book by Frank Baaum was completed in the year, using this story in the year, an extremely popular movie was shot. In total, Limen F. Baum wrote about the country of OA 14 stories, in all of which such American virtues as practicality, independence, tolerance and egalitarianism are attached to all special significance.

Perhaps he would have written even more, but death from a heart attack confused all the cards of the court historian of the country of Oz. However, reader love turned the point into an ellipsis. In the same year, the Reilly and Lee publishing house, specializing in the release of the story of the country of Oz, instructed a twenty -year -old journalist from Philadelphia Ruth Tompson to continue the series.

The Ruth Thompson completed her task well, and as for the number of names that came out from under her pen, here she surpassed Baum himself. The tradition of "continuation" did not die out - a variety of writers took the baton. The illustrator of most intravital publications of Baum John Nile, who offered the readers, tried three of his novels in this area. The famous American science fiction writer Rei Bredbury, a hot fan of the Baum series, noted that in these fairy tales "continuous sweet buns, honey and summer holidays." The Carrol Country of Wonders in comparison with the country of Oz - the cooled porridge of arithmetic at six in the morning, dousing with ice water and long sitting at the desk.

" According to Bredbury, intellectuals prefer the country of miracles, and dreamers choose the country of Oz: "The country of miracles is what we are, and the country of Oz is what we would like to become." Detailed biography.