L. Frank Baum became a succes with his 1883 production of _The Maid of Arran_ in 1882. He was a dreamer, had a printing press and an amateur newspaper, _The Rose Lawn Home Journal_, and published a coin and stamp collecting guide. He failed at almost everything throgh poor business sense. He had been an actor, though only successfully in _The Maid of Arran_, a newspaper editor (_The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer_), a store owner (Baum's Bazaar, from which he filed for bankruptcy on New Year's Da ...[Read Story]