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作者簡介:
L. Frank Baum, Writer, born in Chittenango, New York, USA. A sickly child, he studied at home, became an actor (1870s), worked in the family oil business, then moved to South Dakota. While working as a journalist there, he wrote his first book, Father Goose: His Book, published in 1899 after he had moved to Chicago to work on a trade magazine for window decorators. It proved a success; but his next book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), was even more successful, and he adapted it for the musical stage in 1901. After travelling to Europe, he settled in Pasadena, CA (1902), where he turned out 13 more books in the Oz series and many other children's stories, mostly in the fantasy genre, using pen names such as Schuyler Staunton, Laura Bancroft, Captain Hugh Fitzgerald, Suzanne Metcalfe, Floyd Akens, and Edith Van Dyne. Although appreciated primarily as children's tales, the Oz books have also been read as incorporating Baum's views on American society.
萊曼·弗蘭克·鮑姆(Lyman Frank Baum,1856年5月15日-1919年5月6日),美國作家、演員、報紙編輯,也曾是獨立電影的電影監(jiān)制。他生于紐約州,父親是個桶匠,后來到賓夕法尼亞州開采石油并發(fā)了財。鮑姆的童年是在父親的大莊園里度過的,他從小體弱多病,受到家人的特別關照。他對童話和幻想故事的迷戀幾乎到了“白日夢”的程度,父母很擔心這會影響他的性格發(fā)展,決心送他去軍校。軍校的嚴謹生活并沒有改善他的性格,只導致他精神崩潰。父母只好把他從軍校接回家,任由他發(fā)展自己的興趣。
《綠野仙蹤》(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,1900年,又譯為《神秘歐茲國》、《奧茲國之偉大巫師》)是他最有名的美國兒童文學著作。此書后被改編為電影《綠野仙蹤》(1939年)。在《綠野仙蹤》大受歡迎之后,陸續(xù)創(chuàng)作奧茲國相關系列作品14本。
他的第一本童話著作是《鵝媽媽故事集》(Mother Goose in Prose,1897年),一生共有約60部著作。