 Russell P. MacFall became his collaborator, but he had difficulty speaking with Baum's family.They were willing to discuss family matters only after Baum had died.Reilly and Lee had imposed a 1961 deadline, and the book that appeared is filled with Frank Joslyn Baum's mythologizing about his father, claiming so far as that L. Frank Baum had had a heart attack at age 12 and had marched in a torchlight parade in support of William Jennings Bryan's presidential candidacy, both of which were fabrications.