![]() ![]() ![]() Today, 120 years later, the book has become an important part of American culture. A little more than 50 years later, when The Wonderful Wizard of Oz entered the public domain, it had sold more than 3 million copies. It took almost no time for the book to become popular-by the time the first 10,000 copies were finished printing in January 1901, they quickly sold out. The first was A-G, the next drawer was labeled H-N, and on the last were the letters O-Z. My gaze was caught by the gilt letters on the three drawers of the cabinet. I was thinking and wondering about a title for my story, and I had settled on 'Wizard' as part of it. As he told Publisher's Weekly in 1903, "I have a little cabinet letter file on my desk in front of me. According to Baum himself, the name for his magical land came from the most mundane of places. Frank Baum published The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. ![]()
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