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Michael Patrick Hearn


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April 24, 1950

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Michael Patrick Hearn is an American literary scholar as well as a man of letters specializing in children's literature and its illustration. His works include The Annotated Wizard of Oz (1973/2000), The Annotated Christmas Carol (1977/2003), and The Annotated Huckleberry Finn (2001). He considers the three most quintessential American novels to be Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
He is an expert on L. Frank Baum and is currently writing a biography about him, which sets forth to correct the numerous errors in previous biographies, many based on Frank Joslyn Baum's out of print and largely mythological To Please a Child.
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The Victorian Fairy Tale Book

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The Porcelain Cat

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The Chocolate Book: A Sampl...

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The Wonderful Art of Oz

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Breakfast, Books and Dreams...

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65 years of Wanda Gág's Mil...

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50 Years of Wanda Gag's Mil...

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From the Silver Age to Stal...

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Seeking a State of Grace: T...

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Native American Legends: La...

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“It was my sister's fault. She brought...books home before I was old enough to check them out of the library myself.”
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