Rowling as Conan Doyle {WAS: Re: [HPforGrownups] Dumbledore - father figure or manipulator?}

[Dave Hardenbrook]

No: HPFGUIDX 35728


Sunday, February 24, 2002, 12:47:48 PM, Andrew MacIan wrote:

AM> I do suspect that Rowling has observed the effect that
AM> Holmes had on Conan Doyle; after all, other than
AM> Challenger and the 'White Company', how much of CD's
AM> other writing springs to mind when his name is
AM> mentioned?

The same is true of L. Frank Baum -- He desperately wanted to break
free of Oz and write other fantasy stories.  He didn't kill anyone
off, but he tried to have Oz get cut off from the outside world so
that no new Oz adventures could reach the "Royal Historian".  But it
was no good -- The "little tyrants" (as he called them) insisted on
more Oz stories, so he had to re-establish contact with Oz via wireless
telegraph. ( There was no radio, TV, or Internet yet. :) )

-- 
Dave