Background
Baum is the great-grandson of L. Frank Baum, the original creator of the "Oz" series, and grandson of Frank Joslyn Baum, who published The Laughing Dragon of Oz in 1935.
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Roger Stanton Baum
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Baum publishes under the name Roger South. Baum. Baum is a former resident of Los Los Angeles Many of Roger South. Baum"s children"s books are set in the same world.
The success of his "Oz" books allowed him to leave his banking job in 1990, and become a full-time children"s author
Sometimes Baum"s earlier material is reworked in his later books Long Ears and Tailspin"s "Candy Land" reappears in his 2000 Toto book, for example.
His work does not follow the history in the canon Famous Forty Oz books, even disregarding information given in his great-grandfather"s fourteen. Baum"s book Lion of Oz and the Badge of Courage was made into the movie, Lion of Oz, and a film adaptation of his book Dorothy of Oz was produced by Summertime Entertainment.
lieutenant was titled Legends of Oz: Dorothy"s Return, and was released in 2014.
