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L. Frank Baum1856–1919

When I was young I longed to write a great novel that should win me fame. Now that I am getting old my first book is written to amuse children.

L. Frank Baum on age

Personal inscription on a copy of Mother Goose in Prose (1897) which he gave to his sister, Mary Louise Baum Brewster, as quoted in The Making of the Wizard of Oz (1998) by Aljean Harmetz, p. 317

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