This is a complete bibliography for American children's writer L. Frank Baum.
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" (April 28, 1895)
- "A Cold Day on the Railroad" (May 26, 1895)
- "Who Called 'Perry?'" (January 19, 1896)
- "Yesterday at the Exhibition" (February 2, 1896)
- "My Ruby Wedding Ring" (October 12, 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" (May 5, 1897)
- "The Extravagance of Dan" (May 18, 1897)
- "The Return of Dick Weemins" (July 1897)
- "The Suicide of Kiaros" (September 1897)
- "A Shadow Cast Before" (December 1897)
- "John" (June 24, 1898)
- "The Mating Day" (September 1898)
- "Aunt Hulda's Good Time" (October 26, 1899)
- "The Loveridge Burglary" (January 1900)
- "The Bad Man" (February 1901)
- "The King Who Changed His Mind" (1901)
- "The Runaway Shadows" (1901)
- "(The Strange Adventures of) An Easter Egg" (March 29, 1902)
- "Chrome Yellow" (1904, Unpublished; held in The Baum Papers at Syracuse University)
- "The Diamondback" (1904, First page missing)
- "Jack Burgitt's Honor" (August 1, 1905)
- "The Witchcraft of Mary–Marie" (1908)
- "The Man-Fairy" (December 1910)
- "Juggerjook" (December 1910)
- "The Tramp and the Baby" (October 1911)
- "Bessie's Fairy Tale" (December 1911)
- "Aunt 'Phroney's Boy" (December 1912)
Lost Stories
- The first chapter of The Whatnexters, an unfinished novel with Isidore Witmark[3] (1903, Unpublished and possibly lost)
- "Mr. Rumple's Chill" (1904, Lost)
- "Bess of the Movies" (1904, Lost)
Editor
Baum has been credited as the editor of In Other Lands Than Ours (1907), a collection of letters written by his wife Maud Gage Baum.[4]
Plays and adaptations
Michael Patrick Hearn has identified 42 titles of stage plays associated with Baum, including those listed here and on the Oz books page, some probably redundant or reflective of alternate drafts,[5] many for works that Baum may never have actually started.[6] Listed below are those either known to have been performed (such as the lost plays of his youth) or that exist in at least fragmentary or treatment form.
- The Mackrummins (lost play, 1882) [7]
- The Maid of Arran (play, 1882)
- Matches (lost play, 1882) [7]
- Kilmourne, or O'Connor's Dream (lost? play, opened April 4, 1883) [7]
- The Queen of Killarney (lost? play, 1883) [7]
- The Songs of Father Goose: For the Kindergarten, the Nursery, and the Home (Father Goose set to music by Alberta Neiswanger Hall (later Burton), Chicago: George M. Hill, 1900)
- "The Maid of Athens: A College Fantasy" (play treatment, 1903; with Emerson Hough) [8]
- "The King of Gee-Whiz" (play treatment, February 1905, with Emerson Hough) [9]
- Mortal for an Hour or The Fairy Prince or Prince Marvel (play, 1909) [10]
- The Pipes O' Pan (play, 1909, with George Scarborough; only the first act was ever completed) [9]
- The Patchwork Girl of Oz (musical play, 1913; music by Louis F. Gottschalk, revised as the scenario to the film, The Patchwork Girl of Oz|The Patchwork Girl of Oz (film))
- King Bud of Noland, or The Magic Cloak (musical play, 1913; music by Louis F. Gottschalk, revised as the scenario to the film, The Magic Cloak of Oz)
- Stagecraft, or, The Adventures of a Strictly Moral Man (musical play, 1914; music by Louis F. Gottschalk) [7]
- Prince Silverwings (long term project collaborating with Edith Ogden Harrison, based on her book; worked on as late as 1915; published in 1982)
- The Uplift of Lucifer, or Raising Hell: An Allegorical Squazosh (musical play, music by Louis F. Gottschalk, 1915, published privately by Manuel Weltman's Wagon and Star Press, 1963)
- Blackbird Cottages: The Uplifters' Minstrels (musical play, 1916; music by Byron Gay)[7][11]
- The Orpheus Road Show: A Paraphrastic Compendium of Mirth (musical play, 1917; music by Louis F. Gottschalk) [7]
The Wizard of Oz on screen and back to stage
Early film treatments of Baum's book included 1910 and 1925, as well as Baum's own venture The Oz Film Manufacturing Company. Metro Goldwyn Mayer made the story into the now-classic movie The Wizard of Oz (1939) starring Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale. It was only MGM's second feature-length film in three-strip Technicolor (the first being Sweethearts (1938), based on the Victor Herbert operetta). Among other changes, the film ended by treating the entire adventure as a dream. (Baum used this technique only in Mr. Woodchuck, and in that case the title character explicitly told the dreamer numerous times that she was dreaming.[citation needed])
A completely new Tony Award-winning Broadway musical with an African-American cast, The Wiz, was staged in 1975 with Stephanie Mills as Dorothy. It was the basis for a 1978 film by the same title starring Diana Ross as an adult Dorothy and Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow.
The Wizard of Oz continues to inspire new versions, such as Disney's Return to Oz (1985), The Muppets' Wizard of Oz, Tin Man (a re-imagining of the story televised in late 2007 on the Sci Fi Channel), and a variety of animated productions. Today's most successful Broadway show Wicked provides a history to the two Oz witches used in the classic MGM film. Gregory Maguire, author of the novel Wicked on which the musical is based, chose to honor L. Frank Baum by naming his main character Elphaba—a phonetic play on Baum's initials.[citation needed]
The film Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) pays homage to MGM's film The Wizard of Oz (1939)[12] and stars James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, and Michelle Williams.
