The Life of Ogden
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Nash
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Born Frederick Ogden Nash on August 19, 1902 in Rye, New York.
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An ancestor, General Francis Nash, gave his name to Nashville, Tennesee.
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Raised in Rye, New York and Savannah, Georgia.
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Educated at St. George's School in Rhode Island and, briefly, Harvard University.
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Started work writing advertising copy for Doubleday, Page Publishing, New
York, in 1925.
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Published first book for children, The Cricket of Caradon in 1925.
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First published poem Spring Comes to Murray Hill appears in New
Yorker magazine in 1930.
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Joins staff at New Yorker in 1932.
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Married Frances Rider Leonard on June 6, 1933.
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Published 19 books of poetry.
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Collaborated, in 1943, in the musical comedy, "One Touch of Venus."
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Elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1950.
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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.
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