cities in the early 1880s, with Baum in a leading role. One of his plays, “The Maid of Arran,” toured a number of U.S. As a young man in upstate New York, he bred prize-winning chickens, published a trade journal about poultry and was as an actor and playwright. (Credit: Interim Archives/Getty Images)īaum was 44 when “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” was published and by then he’d tried his hand at a variety of jobs.
