March Laumer

Background

March Laumer was born in Birmingham, Alabama, the son of an officer in the United States. Army Air Corps.

Education

March Laumer graduated from the University of Missouri, and taught abroad, including in Ying Wa College (1965-1967)in Hong Kong and Turkey.

Career

Much of his maturity was spent between residences in Florida and Lund, Sweden. March began writing his Oz books in 1962 (one year before the publication of the fortieth and last "official" Oz book, Merry Go Round in Oz). He was a frequent correspondent of Ruth Plumly Thompson until her death in 1976.

Most of Laumer"s books were published by his own small press, Opium Books, in Hong Kong, or Vanitas Press in Lund, Sweden, often with illustrations by Lau Shiu Fan.

Laumer"s books often make drastic changes to the series and involve adult themes that have led some fans to label them pornography based on some oblique and non-negative references to bestiality and pederasty in, his best known and most widely circulated book, as well as the first to be published. Many of his manuscripts were works in progress for many years, and some of them may have been discarded.

Laumer wrote his books set at specific periods of time, some of them projected into the future.

Works

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  • A fairy queen in Oz: Founded on & continuing the stories by March Laumer