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Michael Patrick Hearn

Michael Patrick Hearn is an American literary scholar as well as a man of letters specializing in children's literature and its illustration. His works include The Annotated Wizard of Oz (1973/2000), The Annotated Christmas Carol (1977/2003), and The Annotated Huckleberry Finn (2001). He considers the three most quintessential American novels to be Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.

Selected works
Other books as author or editor include: • ''50 years of Wanda Gág's Millions of Cats: 1928-1978'' (1978) • McLoughlin Brothers, publishers, 1828-1978 (1980) • Victorian Fairy Tales (1980) • Peter Newell, American Comic Illustrator (1983) • The Chocolate Book: A Sampler for Boys and Girls (1983) • The Best of the Andrew Lang Fairy Tale Book (1986) • The Porcelain Cat (children's picture book, 1987) • The Wizard of Oz: The Screenplay, (1989) • W.W. Denslow: The Other Wizard of Oz, (1996) • The Victorian Fairy Tale Book (1990) • ''65 years of Wanda Gág's Millions of Cats: 1928-1993'' (1992) • Native American Legends : Lakota (1995) • ''Myth, Magic, and Mystery: One Hundred Years of American Children's Book Illustration'' (1996) • ''From the Silver Age to Stalin: Russian Children's Book Illustration'' In preparation, (2008) He has also written articles for Horn Book and The Baum Bugle and Liner Notes for Caedmon Records. ==References==
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