“He told Dorothy he had brushed his shaggy hair and whiskers; but she thought he must have brushed them the wrong way, for they were quite as shaggy as before.”

— L. Frank Baum , book The Road to Oz

The Road to Oz, Ch. 4 : King Dox (1909)
Later Oz novels

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Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter 1856–1919

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