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<DIV>James Wynn writes:</DIV>
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size=2>> Plumly Thompson was?</FONT></DIV><FONT
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size=2>I don't know about Wolfe, but here's what Lin Carter once
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<DIV>And this past year we lost another writer to whom I owe a deep personal
debt -- Miss Ruth Plumly Thompson, of Oz and Philadelphia. When in her
twenties, she picked up the Oz books after the death of L. Frank Baum, and
continued to write them, one a year, for most of her life. Her
twenty-second Oz book, <EM>The Enchanted Island of Oz</EM>, has just been
published posthumously. She died on April 6, 1976.</DIV>
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<DIV>The Oz books are the best and the greatest children's books in American
literature. And their excellence, their sparkling sense of fun and
adventurous swagger and endless color and variety, are due in very large
measure to Miss Thompson. It was these books (and, in particular,
*<EM>her</EM>* contributions to the series) that first caught and held my
interest in my boyhood. I owe it entirely to Miss Thompson that, early
on, I was turned in the direction of fantasy. Bless her ... she was a
lovely lady. -- Lin Carter, "Introduction," <EM>The Year's Best Fantasy
Stories: 3</EM> (DAW, 1977).</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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<DIV>Wolfe also has mentioned her contributions (alongside Baum's) more than
once in interviews </DIV>
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<DIV>John</DIV>
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