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Michael Patrick Hearn is an American literary scholar and one of America's leading men of letters specializing in children's literature and its illustration. His works include ''The Annotated Wizard of Oz'' (1971/2000), ''The Annotated Christmas Carol'' (1977/2003), and ''The Annotated Huckleberry Finn'' (2001). He considers the three most quintessential American novels to be ''Moby-Dick'' by Herman Melville, ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' by L. Frank Baum, and ''The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'' by Mark Twain.〔''Oz: The American Fairyland'' documentary by Gayle O'Neal and Leonard A. Swann, Jr., 1997〕 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 Schocken Books (1986), wrote the introduction to the first published version of the screenplay of ''The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)''. He appears in the documentaries ''Oz: the American Fairyland'' and ''Matilda Joslyn Gage'' (1983), credited as an "Authority on L. Frank Baum". He gave the keynote address at the Centennial convention of ''The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' mounted by The International Wizard of Oz Club, and often makes public appearances in which he lectures on Baum. 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== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Michael Patrick Hearn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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