L. Frank Baum, wizard behind Oz, once wrote under a woman’s pseudonym: Edith van Dyne
In fact, Mr. Watson, it’s a queer world, and the longer I live in it the queerer I find it. Once I thought it would be a good idea to regulate things myself and run the world as it ought to be run; but I gave it up long ago. The world’s a stage, they say; but the show ain’t always amusing, by a long chalk, and sometimes I wish I didn’t have a reserved seat.
Aunt Jane’s Nieces (1906) by Edith van Dyne
L. Frank Baum
Mr. Baum lived in Hollywood in the early 1900s, where he started his own movie company: The Oz Film Manufacturing Company.
And he was one of the founding fathers of the Uplifters, an organization of men in Los Angeles who liked to carouse, put on amateur theatrics, and raise money for good causes.