Michael Patrick Hearn
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
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.
As an Oz and L. Frank Baum scholar, he also edited The Critical Heritage Edition of the Wizard of Oz for
Hearn was a student at Hamilton College in 1968-69 and then transferred to Bard College, where he graduated in 1972. At Hamilton, he was encouraged to become an author by one of his professors, Alex Haley.[2] His first book, The Annotated Wizard of Oz, was completed when he was a student at Bard.
Selected works
Other books as author or editor include:
- 50 years of Wanda Gág's Millions of Cats: 1928-1978 (1978)
- McLoughlin Brothers, publishers, 1828-1978 (1980)
- Victorian Fairy Tales (1980)
- Peter Newell, American Comic Illustrator (1983)
- The Chocolate Book: A Sampler for Boys and Girls (1983)
- The Best of the Andrew Lang Fairy Tale Book (1986)
- The Porcelain Cat (children's picture book, 1987)
- The Wizard of Oz: The Screenplay, (1989)
- W.W. Denslow: The Other Wizard of Oz, (1996)
- The Victorian Fairy Tale Book (1990)
- 65 years of Wanda Gág's Millions of Cats: 1928-1993 (1992)
- Native American Legends : Lakota (1995)
- Myth, Magic, and Mystery: One Hundred Years of American Children's Book Illustration (1996)
- From the Silver Age to Stalin: Russian Children's Book Illustration In preparation, (2008)
He has also written articles for Horn Book and The Baum Bugle and Liner Notes for Caedmon Records.
References
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External links
- Michael Patrick Hearn at IMDb
- Michael Patrick Hearn at Library of Congress, with 24 library catalog records