As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Author, actor and independent filmmaker                          

Selected Works:

List of Oz books:

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - 1900
The Marvelous Land of Oz - 1904
Ozma of Oz - 1907
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz - 1908
The Road to Oz - 1909
The Emerald City of Oz - 1910
The Patchwork Girl of Oz - 1913
Tik-Tok of Oz - 1914
The Scarecrow of Oz - 1915
Rinkitink in Oz - 1916
The Lost Princess of Oz - 1917
The Tin Woodman of Oz - 1918
The Magic of Oz - 1919, posthumously published
Glinda of Oz - 1920, posthumously published
Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz - 1905
Little Wizard Stories of Oz - 1913

Other Woks:

Mother Goose in Prose - prose retellings of Mother Goose rhymes, - 1897
By the Candelabra's Glare - poetry - 1898
Father Goose: His Book - nonsense poetry - 1899
The Magical Monarch of Mo - Originally published in 1900 as A New Wonderland - fantasy - 1903
The Army Alphabet - poetry - 1900
The Navy Alphabet - poetry - 1900
Dot and Tot of Merryland - fantasy - 1901
American Fairy Tales - fantasy - 1901
The Master Key: An Electric Fairy Tale - fantasy - 1901
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus - 1902
The Enchanted Island of Yew - fantasy - 1903
Queen Zixi of Ix - fantasy - 1905
John Dough and the Cherub - fantasy - 1906
Father Goose's Year Book: Quaint Quacks and Feathered Shafts for Mature Children - nonsense poetry for adults - 1907
The Daring Twins: A Story for Young Folk - novel - 1911; reprinted in 2006 as The Secret of the Lost Fortune
The Sea Fairies - fantasy - 1911
Sky Island - fantasy - 1912
Phoebe Daring: A Story for Young Folk - novel - 1912; reprinted in 2008 as Unjustly Accused!
Our Married Life - novel - 1912 - lost
Johnson - novel - 1912 - lost
Molly Oodle - novel - 1914 - lost
The Mystery of Bonita - novel - 1914 - lost

Short stories:

This list omits those stories that appeared in Our Landlady, American Fairy Tales, Animal Fairy Tales, Little Wizard Stories of Oz, and Queer Visitors from the Marvelous Land of Oz.

They Played a New Hamlet - 1895
A Cold Day on the Railroad -1895
Who Called 'Perry?' - 1896
Yesterday at the Exhibition -  1896
My Ruby Wedding Ring - 1896
The Man with the Red Shirt - c.1897, told to Matilda Jewell Gage, who wrote it down in 1905
How Scroggs Won the Reward - 1897
The Extravagance of Dan - 1897
The Return of Dick Weemins - 1897
The Suicide of Kiaros - 1897
A Shadow Cast Before - 1897
The Mating Day - 1898
Aunt Hulda's Good Time - 1899
The Loveridge Burglary - 1900
The Bad Man - 1901
The King Who Changed His Mind - 1901
The Runaway Shadows or A Trick of Jack Frost - 1901
The Strange Adventures of An Easter Egg - 1902
The Ryl of the Lilies - 1903

Chrome Yellow - 1904, Unpublished; held in The Baum Papers at Syracuse University

Mr. Rumple's Chill - 1904 - lost
Bess of the Movies - 1904 - lost
The Diamondback - 1904, First page missing
A Kidnapped Santa Claus - 1904
The Woggle-Bug Book: The Unique Adventures of the Woggle-Bug - 1905
Nelebel's Fairyland - 1905
Jack Burgitt's Honor - 1905
The Tiger's Eye: A Jungle Fairy Tale - 1905
The Yellow Ryl - 1906
The Witchcraft of Mary-Marie - 1908
The Man-Fairy - 1910
Juggerjook - 1910
The Tramp and the Baby - 1911
Bessie's Fairy Tale - 1911
Aunt 'Phroney's Boy - 1912
The Littlest Giant--An Oz Story - 1918
An Oz Book - 1919.                          

Mother Cynthia Stanton
Father Benjamin Ward Baum, the seventh of nine children, of whom only five survivedinto adulthood.                          

L. Frank Baum was the secretary of Aberdeen's Woman's Suffrage Club

His Edith Van Dyne stories, including the Aunt Jane's Nieces, The Flying Girl and its sequel, and his girl sleuth Josie O'Gorman from The Bluebird Books, depict girls and young women engaging in traditionally masculine activities.                          

Pseudonyms for some of his other, non-Oz books:

Edith Van Dyne  - Aunt Jane's Nieces series
Laura Bancroft  - Twinkle Tales, Policeman Bluejay
Floyd Akers  - The Boy Fortune Hunters series, continuing the Sam Steele series
Suzanne Metcalf  - Annabel
Schuyler Staunton  - The Fate of a Crown, Daughters of Destiny
John Estes Cooke  - Tamawaca Folks
Capt. Hugh Fitzgerald  - Sam Steele series

Baum also anonymously wrote The Last Egyptian: A Romance of the Nile.