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Every hand and every hour should be devoted to rescue the world from its insanity of guilt, and to assuage the pangs of human hearts with balm and anodyne. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
L. Frank Baum
Born: May 15, 1856
Died: May 6, 1919 (aged 62)
Bio: Lyman Frank Baum, better known by his pen name L. Frank Baum, was an American author chiefly known for his children's books, particularly The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
Known for:
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900)
- Ozma of Oz (1907)
- The Land of Oz (1904)
- Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz (1908)
- The Emerald City of Oz (1910)
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