March Laumer (17 August 1923 – 12 January 2000) was an American author, primarily of books on the Land of Oz.
[1] March Laumer was born in Birmingham, Alabama, the son of an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps.
March Laumer graduated from the University of Missouri, and taught abroad, including in Ying Wa College (1965–67) in Hong Kong and Turkey.
Laumer's books often make drastic changes to the series and involve adult themes that have led some fans to label them pornography based on some oblique and non-negative references to bestiality and pederasty in The Green Dolphin of Oz (1978), his best known and most widely circulated book, as well as the first to be published.
He also wrote several non-Oz SF/fantasy works, including Aillin o' My Dreams (A Fantasia on Irish Themes), Fountains, Fireworks and Balloons, and Gay Bravery.