# Ruth Plumly Thompson *The Urth list — 1 messages, 1 voices, 19 Apr 2002* > Exported from an unofficial mirror of a public mailing list. Copyright > in each message remains with the person who wrote it. > Email addresses are obscured as `user at host`, the form the original > archive published. This file was rebuilt from parsed fields rather than > retained headers, so it is faithful in content but not byte-exact. --- ### Adam Stephanides *19 Apr 2002, 15:04* Since there's been interest in the past in finding parallels between Wolfe's works and the Oz books, I thought I'd pass along this tidbit from Wolfe's essay in Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series vol. 9: discussing his childhood reading in Houston, Wolfe writes "I mixed them with Oz books--the best were by Ruth Plumly Thompson." (301) He doesn't say explicitly that he prefers Thompson to Baum (there were several writers of Oz books after Baum's death), but it's hard to imagine that he wouldn't have read any Baum. --Adam ---