Trivia: What author wrote the original novel, “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”?
C. S. Lewis
J. R. R. Tolkien
L. Frank Baum
E. B. White
The correct answer is L. Frank Baum
So why is this answer correct? : First released in 1900, L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” was an immediate bestseller. Continuing on that success, Baum wrote 13 more Oz books, and following his death in 1919, the series continued with help from other writers. By the 1940s, though, his hit literary series had been overshadowed by the film it was based on, for which the studio paid him $75,000 for the rights.