Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West is a novel published in 1995 written by Gregory Maguire, it is a revisionist look at the land and characters of Oz from who, was born in Chittenango, New York in 1856 into a devout Methodist family?
L. Frank Baum Baum was born in Chittenango, New York in 1856 into a devout Methodist family. He had German, Scots-Irish, and English ancestry, and was the seventh of nine children of Cynthia Ann (née Stanton) and Benjamin Ward Baum, only five of whom survived into adulthood. "Lyman" was the name of his father's brother, but he always disliked it and preferred his middle name "Frank".
Agnes Ozman Agnes Ozman (1870-1937) was a female student at Charles Fox Parham's Bethel Bible School in Topeka, Kansas. Ozman was considered by many as "“the first to speak in tongues”". Her experiences sparked the modern Pentecostal-Holiness movement, which began in the early 20th century.