Ruth Plumly Thompson

Ruth Plumly Thompson ( born July 27, 1891 in Philadelphia; † 6 April 1976) was an American writer who has written many books for children. She is known for continuing the children's book series The Wizard of Oz after L. Frank Baum died in 1919.

Life

Thompson was born in her grandparents' house. Her parents were Charles Plumly († 1895) and Amanda Shuff Thompson. She had two sisters, Dorothy ( Thompson Curtis, 1890-1977 ) and Janet, and a brother, Richard. When she was two years old the family moved because of a new job of the father at the New York Times to Brooklyn. Her father died suddenly in 1895; her mother then returned with four small children to Philadelphia. 1918 founded Plumly Thompson in Philadelphia, the Santa Claus Club, which made ​​sure in the next few years, that 15,000 children from poor families were able to get Christmas gifts. The club was so well known that the local post office started to deliver letters to Santa Claus Ruth Plumly Thompson. Thompson first worked at the newspaper Philadelphia Public Ledger, during the writing of Oz books as a full-time writer, and from the mid- 1930s to mid-1940s for King Comics. In 1968 she moved to Malvern, Pennsylvania.

Scripture Generic Career

Thompson began her Schriftstellerkariere 1914, when she started trying to send stories to newspapers and magazines. She had, for example, a weekly children's page in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, which she filled until April 25, 1921, short stories, fables, poems, and advice for children. Her first book, The Perhappsy Chaps (1918 ) was a collection of their contributions to these children page. In 1920, after L. Frank Baum died, traveled William F. Lee ( † 1924) from the publisher Reilly & Lee, Chicago, Philadelphia, to ask Thompson whether she wants to continue the Oz series. Between 1921 and 1939 she wrote a series of Wizard of Oz story in the form of a novel per year. All of her novels have been Oz by John. R. Neill (1877-1943) illustrates, who had also illustrates the Oz novels 2-14 by L. Frank Baum.

Publications

Oz books

More Children's Books

• The Perhappsy chaps. ( First edition ) P.F. Volland Company, Chicago, 1918.
• The Princess of Cozytown. ( First edition ) P.F. Volland Company, Chicago 1922
• The Curious Cruise of Captain Santa. ( First edition ) Reilly & Lee, Chicago, 1926.
• The Wonder Book. ( First edition ) P.F. Volland Company, Chicago, 1929.
• Peculiar Penguins. (First Edition ) David McKay Co., Philadelphia, 1934.
• King Kojo. (First Edition ) David McKay Co., Philadelphia, 1938.
• The Wizard of Way -Up and Other Wonders. The Wizard of Oz Club, Kinderhook, Illinois in 1985.
• Sissajig and Other Wonders. The Wizard of Oz Club, Kinderhook, Illinois, 2002.