15 Wonderful Things You Might Not Know About L. Frank Baum

(via mental_floss) In 1900, L. Frank Baum published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a book that has never been out of print and that has been produced as movies, theatrical plays and musicals, and led to further cultural phenomena like The Wiz and Wicked. In honor of his 160th birthday (May 15th, 2016), mental_floss has posted 15 facts about the actual man behind the curtain.