L. Frank Baum and his works

• An appreciation of L. Frank Baum as a Grandmaster of science-fiction

• Biographies of Baum — [A] [B]

• Frank Baum, the Man Behind the Curtain

• "The Man Who Made Oz"

• The L. Frank Baum story on Neatorama

• A Baum bibliography and timeline

• Baum's books

• A 1909 interview with Baum (with a correction!)

• "L. Frank Baum's La Jolla" — an article about his time in the San Diego area and how it may have influenced Oz

• Save the Neal House! — this was the house where L. Frank Baum met and fell in love with Maud Gage

• Ozcot, the Baum family home, in Daeida magazine (the article starts on page 10)

• L. Frank Baum in California

• L. Frank Baum, Composer

• Under the Influence: L. Frank Baum

• L. Frank Baum's MySpace page

• L. Frank Baum on Facebook — [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F]

• Catalog of the holdings of the L. Frank Baum collection at Syracuse University

• Catalog of the holdings of the L. Frank Baum collection at Hollins University (Roanoke, Virginia)

• Is The Wizard of Oz a political satire? — [A (the article that started it all)] [B] [B'] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G]
  • A modern-day reinterpretation
  • Oz is China and a rebuttal
  • Oz as Japan

• L. Frank Baum, Freethought Firebrand

• Baum's Castorine, the family company Baum briefly worked for—it's still around!

• The Peekskill Museum — they have information about Baum, who was a student at Peekskill Academy

• Did L. Frank Baum advocate genocide? — [A] [B]

• The Wizard of Oz and the Kennedy assassination???

• The metaphysics of Oz:
  • Why some Christians object to Oz and Baum
  • The Oz Factors, The Wizard of Oz as an analogy to the mysteries of life
  • The Wizard of Oz and the Illuminati

• Mythical perspectives of Oz (excerpts) at Castle Books

• Baum, Burroughs, and the Theosophical Movement

• Elements of Frankenstein in Oz

• Tik-Tok and Isaac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics

• Tik-Tok, Android

• The Wizard of Oz vs the Chronicles of Narnia — [A] [B]

• The Wizard of Oz compared to the Harry Potter books

• Frank and Maud Baum's grave — [A] [B]

• A call to rename a Hollywood park for Baum

• Matilda Joslyn Gage, L. Frank Baum's mother-in-law and an important historical figure in her own right

• Matilda Joslyn Gage's influence on Oz

• "Superman and the Two Wizards of Oz"

• Yellow Brick Philosophy

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