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Aug 17, 1923 Died on 12 Jan 2000 (aged 76)
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About March Laumer
- March Laumer (17 August 1923 – 12 January 2000) was an American author, primarily of books on the Land of Oz.March Laumer was born in Birmingham, Alabama, the son of an officer in the U.S.
- Army Air Corps.
- He was the older brother of science fiction writer Keith Laumer; their youngest brother Frank was also a writer, on historical subjects.
- March Laumer graduated from the University of Missouri, and taught abroad, including in Ying Wa College (1965–67) in Hong Kong and Turkey.
- Much of his maturity was spent between residences in Florida and Lund, Sweden. March began writing his Oz books in 1962 (one year before the publication of the fortieth and last "official" Oz book, Merry Go Round in Oz).
- He was a frequent correspondent of Ruth Plumly Thompson until her death in 1976.
- Most of Laumer's books were published by his own small press, Opium Books, in Hong Kong, or Vanitas Press in Lund, Sweden, often with illustrations by Lau Shiu Fan.
- Laumer's books often make drastic changes to the series and involve adult themes that have led some fans to label them pornography based on some oblique and non-negative references to bestiality and pederasty in The Green Dolphin of Oz (1978), his best known and most widely circulated book, as well as the first to be published.
- Many of his manuscripts were works in progress for many years, and some of them may have been discarded. Laumer wrote his books set at specific periods of time, some of them projected into the future.
- He also incorporated characters and events from the Magic Land books of Alexander Melentyevich Volkov, particularly in Aunt Em and Uncle Henry in Oz: A Traditional Tale of Oz: a darker, more extreme companion piece telling essentially the same story as his more Baumian Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in Oz: The Oz Book for 1911, as well as his apocalyptic conclusions to the series, The Ten Woodmen of Oz: The Oz Book for 1999, and A Farewell to Oz: The Oz Book for 2000.
