title: Oz, the Complete Collection, Volume 4: Rinkitink in Oz; The Lost Princess of Oz; The Tin Woodman of Oz
author:  L. Frank Baum 
description: <b>Lyman Frank Baum</b> was born in Chittenango, New York, on May 15, 1856. Over the course of his life, Baum raised fancy poultry, sold fireworks, managed an opera house, opened a department store, and an edited a newspaper before finally turning to writing. In 1900, he published his best known book <i>The Wonderful Wizard of Oz</i>. Eventually he wrote fifty-five novels, including thirteen Oz books, plus four lost novels, eighty-three short stories, more than two hundred poems, an unknown number of scripts, and many miscellaneous writings. Baum died on May 6, 1919. He is buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in Glendale, California.
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  Title: Rinkitink in Oz  
    
  Author: L. Frank Baum  
    
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