Fairy Tale Spotlight: Jack Snow - Author of Oz

Only two! Jack Snow only wrote two canon Oz books! Ouch! I cannot begin to tell you how wonderful this author is. Although there are other contributions the man made to the universe, he was only able to expand the series by two points, and that, to me, is very sad.

Jack Snow only wrote "The Magical Mimics in Oz" and "The Shaggy Man of Oz." Both are extremely good. The thing that made Jack Snow so good was the respect he had for the original canon material that had been created by L. Frank Baum. This is something that both Ruth Plumly Thompson and John R. Neill just couldn't seem to swing. Jack knew what he was doing, and he did it really well.

I know I said great things about John R. Neill, but it was more in contrast to the often painfully bad books written by Thompson. It was a change of pace, but really not anything like what Baum would have done. When Jack Snow did Oz, it was really Oz. It was the way Oz was always intended to be.

Now even though he ignored the other canon and characters, he still ended up writing a book entitled "Who's Who in Oz," which covered all the characters up to that point. So in a way, he still acknowledged those other characters, and I am happy he did.

I'm serious when I say this, but I really do recommend you read his stuff. It isn't just his respect for Baum's world, but he just seems like he is an even more serious writer than the original creator. He's a solid and talented author in his own right. These are well-written and eloquent books that deserve notice. Thank you, Jack Snow, for everything you did to make Oz wonderful.

This blog was written on October 20, 2022.

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