Description: The first scholarly monograph to focus on L. Frank Baum's portrayals of queerness and sexuality in his more than seventy works of fiction
Brief description: Tison Pugh is Pegasus Professor of English at the University of Central Florida. He is author or editor of over twenty books, including Harry Potter and Beyond: On J. K. Rowling's Fantasies and Other Fictions; The Queer Fantasies of the American Family Sitcom; and Innocence, Heterosexuality, and the Queerness of Children's Literature.
Review Quotes: The queer resonances of Baum and Oz are frequently acknowledged, but no one has explored this topic more extensively or intelligently than Tison Pugh.--Ryan Bunch, author of Oz and the Musical: Performing the American Fairy Tale