A Tribute to the Poet, Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
Read: Selected Poems by Ogden Nash
- Born Frederick Ogden Nash on August 19, 1902 in Rye, New York.
- An ancestor, General Francis Nash, gave his name to Nashville, Tennesee.
- Raised in Rye, New York and Savannah, Georgia.
- Educated at St. George's School in Rhode Island and, briefly, Harvard University.
- Started work writing advertising copy for Doubleday, Page Publishing, New York, in 1925.
- Published first book for children, The Cricket of Caradon in 1925.
- First published poem Spring Comes to Murray Hill appears in New Yorker magazine in 1930.
- Joins staff at New Yorker in 1932.
- Married Frances Rider Leonard on June 6, 1933.
- Published 19 books of poetry.
- Collaborated, in 1943, in the musical comedy, "One Touch of Venus."
- Elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1950.
- Lived in New York but his principal home was in Baltimore, Maryland, where he died on May 19, 1971. He was buried in North Hampton, New Hampshire.
- Hard Lines 1931
- I'm a Stranger Here Myself 1938
- The Face is Familiar 1940
- Good Intentions 1942
- Many Long Years Ago 1945
- Selected Verse 1946
- Versus 1949
- Parents Keep Out 1951
- The Private Dining Room 1953
- You Can't Get There From Here 1957
- The Christmas That Almost Wasn't 1957
- Verses from 1929 On 1959
- Everyone But Thee and Me 1962
- Marriage Lines 1964
- The Untold Adventures of Santa Claus 1964
- There's Always Another Windmill 1968
- Bed Riddance 1970
- The Old Dog Barks Backwards 1972
Biographies, Bibliographies and Collections:
- Loving Letters from Ogden Nash: A Family Album 1990; Isabel Eberstadt and Linell Smith
- Ogden Nash: A Descriptive Bibliography 1990; George W. Crandell
- The Ogden Nash Collection at the University of Texas, Austin
- Corbis Image Catalog - Includes 3 photos of Nash
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