A Tribute to the Poet, Ogden Nash (1902-1971)

• 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 principle 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 
• 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 

• I Wouldn't Have Missed It: Selected Poems of Ogden Nash 1975
• Pocket Book of Ogden Nash 1994
• Selected Poetry of Ogden Nash: 650 Rhymes, Verses, Lyrics and Poems 1995
• The Adventures of Isabel 1994
• Ogden Nash's Zoo 1987
• Under Water With Ogden Nash 1997
• The Tale of Custard the Dragon 1995
• Custard the Dragon and the Wicked Knight 1996

• 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

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