Дата рождения: 15 мая 1856(1856-05-15)

•Место рождения: Читтенанго (англ.)русск., штат Нью-Йорк, США

•Дата смерти: 6 мая 1919(1919-05-06) (62 года)

•Место смерти: Голливуд, Калифорния, США

•Гражданство: США 

•Род деятельности: прозаик, поэт, драматург, сценарист, актёр, продюсер

•Годы творчества: 1897—1919

•Дебют: «Сказки Матушки Гусыни в прозе» (англ.)русск., 1897

•Lyman Frank Baum (May 15, 1856 – May 6, 1919) was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

•Baum was born in Chittenango, New York, in 1856, into a devout Methodist family.

•He had German, Scots-Irish, and English ancestry, and was the seventh of nine children born to Cynthia Ann (née Stanton) and Benjamin Ward Baum.

• Baum grew up on his parents' expansive estate.

•At the age of 12, he was sent to study at Peekskill Military Academy.

•He was a sickly child, started writing at an early age.

•Baum he was 17, established a second amateur journal, The Stamp Collector, printed an 11-page pamphlet called Baum's Complete Stamp Dealers' Directory, and started a stamp dealership with friends.