W. W. Denslow c.1900, at his desk. was L. Frank Baum’s illustrator, via Wikipedia Commons, Public Domain. Still going strong, built in 1888 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1977 ...

In 1900, L. Frank Baum published The Wonderful Wizard of ... Mother Goose in Prose, with illustrations by Maxfield Parrish (his first big commission; Parrish went on to become a top illustrator ...

A hundred years ago, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” by L. Frank Baum ... “Wizard” ’s illustrator, and labored at a still unpublished “definitive biography” of Baum.

Dorothy Gale may have gotten her name from Dorothy Gage, the infant niece of Baum’s wife, Maud. She died in November 1898 as Baum was writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. 5. Baum based his book ...

L. Frank Baum wrote these words in his poem about ... after the Cowardly Lion’s crown in W.W. Denslow’s first-edition illustrations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.” Still going strong ...