Ogden Nash

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Born:
Dec. 15, 1902
Died:
Dec. 15, 1971

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Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote more than 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by The New York Times to be the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry.

Books by Ogden Nash

James Baldwin, Herman Melville, E.B. White, Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Nathaniel Hawthorne, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Adrienne Rich, John Steinbeck, Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, W. E. B. Du Bois, Walt Whitman, Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, Tom Wolfe, Sherwood Anderson, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Mark Twain, William Least Heat Moon, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Lewis Thomas, Eugene O'Neill, Gwendolyn Brooks, E. E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, Lorraine Hansberry, Annie Dillard, Carson McCullers, Robert Lowell, William Carlos Williams, Henry David Thoreau, Edgar Allan Poe, Jean Toomer, W. H. Auden, Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty, Thornton Wilder, Dorothy Parker, Ambrose Bierce, Washington Irving, John Updike, Edgar Lee Masters, Patrick F. McManus, Richard Wright, Richard Rodriguez, Leslie Marmon Silko, Frederick Douglass, Thomas Paine, N. Scott Momaday, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Crane, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Benjamin Franklin, Robert Penn Warren, Galway Kinnell, Marianne Moore, Irwin Shaw, Margaret Walker, Ezra Pound, Lawson Fusao Inada, Vannevar Bush, Ralph Ellison, Amiri Baraka, Denise Levertov, Bernard Malamud, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bret Harte, Pearl S. Buck, Thomas Jefferson, Esther Forbes, Robert E. Lee, Katherine Anne Porter, Conrad Richter, George Santayana, Robinson Jeffers, William Saroyan, James Thurber, Carl Sandburg, Jacques Barzun, Robert Anderson, Cotton Mather, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Paul Farmer, Abraham Lincoln, James E. Miller, Carlotta Cardenas de Dwyer, Robert Hayden, Russell J. Hogan, Kerry M. Wood Miller, James E. Miller Jr., Carlota Cárdenas de Dwyer, Kerry M. Wood, John Smith, William Bradford, Sarah Kemble Knight, William Byrd II, Jonathan Edwards, Anne Bradstreet, Taylor, Edward, Phillis Wheatley, Philip Morin Freneau, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, James Fenimore Cooper, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier, James Russell Lowell, James W. C. Pennington, Francis Wright, Edward Rowe Snow, Seattle Chief, Margaret Fuller, Harriet Jane Hanson Robinson, Mollie Dorsey Sanford, Sidney Lanier, Satanta, Chief Joseph, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Amy Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, Robert Frost, Countee Cullen, Elinor Wylie, Sara Teasdale, James Weldon Johnson, John Crowe Ransom, Wallace Stevens, Phyllis McGinley, Arna Wendell Bontemps, Claude McKay, Louise Bogan, Lillian Hellman, Sabine R. Ulibarrí, Mona Van Duyn, Richard Wilbur, David Wagoner, Theodore Roethke, Karl Jay Shapiro, Richard Eberhart, May Swenson, Mari Evans, Maxine Kumin, Elizabeth Bishop, Howard Nemerov, William Stafford, Randall Jarrell, John N. Morris, Vern Rutsala, Jim Wayne Miller, James Masao Mitsui, Gary Soto, Teresa Palomo Acosta, Eugenia Collier, Walter Blair, Theodore Hornberger, Margaret Wasson, Bernard DeVoto, Conrad Aiken, Byrd, William, Captain John Smith, George Washington, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., Paul Hamilton Hayne, Henry Timrod, Abram Joseph Ryan, Sarah Orne Jewett, O. Henry, Stephen Vincent Benét, Paul Engle, Vachel Lindsay, Leonie Adams, James Wright, Ogden Nash, David McCord, Morris Bishop, Richard Willard Armour, Don Marquis, E. J. Kahn, Paul Horgan, White, W. L., John Davenport, Cleveland Amory, Norman Cousins, Frank C. Laubach, Jesse Stuart, Douglas S. Freeman, Catherine Drinker Bowen, Philip Hamburger, Robert C. Pooley, Day, Clarence, Theresa Helburn, Brad Schulberg: The United States in Literature (Hardcover, 1979, Scott, Foresman and Company)

The United States in Literature

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Ogden Nash: Candy Is Dandy (Paperback, 1994, Carlton Books Ltd) No rating

Candy Is Dandy

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Ogden Nash: The selected verse of Ogden Nash. (1946, Modern Library)

The selected verse of Ogden Nash.

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E.B. White, Joseph Mitchell, Sinclair Lewis, Mark Twain, A. J. Liebling, E. E. Cummings, Edgar Allan Poe, Dorothy Parker, Ambrose Bierce, Washington Irving, James M. Cain, H. L. Mencken, Benjamin Franklin, Bret Harte, Ludwig Bemelmans, Louis Untermeyer, Frank R. Stockton, William Saroyan, Clifton Fadiman, James Thurber, James Russell Lowell, Phyllis McGinley, Stephen Vincent Benét, Ogden Nash, David McCord, Morris Bishop, Don Marquis, Day, Clarence, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Oliver Herford, Eugene Field, N. P. Willis, Joel Chandler Harris, Kenneth Fearing, Ring Lardner, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Donald Ogden Stewart, Booth Tarkington, Carolyn Wells, Marc Connelly, Glen Rounds, Anita Loos, S. J. Perelman, Sally Benson, Richard Lockridge, George Ade, Katharine S. White, Leonard Q. Ross, John Mosher, Edward Streeter, Arthur Kober, Heywood Broun, Frank Moore Colby, McKelway, St. Clair, Frederic S. Cozzens, Charles Heber Clark, Francis Steegmuller, James T. Fields, Moffat, Donald W., Orpheus C. Kerr, V. Petroleum Nasby, Finley Peter Dunne, Frank Sullivan, Robert C. Benchley, Franklin P. Adams, Gibbs, Wolcott, Corey Ford, Nunnally Johnson, Lucretia P. Hale, Clifford Orr, Artemus Ward (Charles Farrar Browne), Russell Maloney, Geoffrey Hellman, M, George W. Harris, Alfred Henry Lewis, Roark Bradford, Frances Warfield, Billings, Josh, Will Cuppy, Alexander Woolcott, Persis Greely Anderson, George Jean Nathan, Alva Johnston, Sanderson Vanderbilt, E. J. Kahn Jr., John McNulty, Angela Cypher, H. C. Bunner, Irwin Edman, Samuel Hoffenstein, Guiterman, Arthur, Taylor, Bert Leston, Clarence Hollister Knapp, Kenneth Allan Robinson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Lee Strout White, Ruth Ann McKinney: A Subtreasury of American humor (1962, Capricorn Books) No rating

A Subtreasury of American humor

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William Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Ray Bradbury, Bashō Matsuo, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Walt Whitman, Alice Walker, Jon Krakauer, Edith Wharton, Ernesto Galarza, Sherwood Anderson, Jack Finney, Mark Twain, Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, Shel Silverstein, Anna Quindlen, Charles Osgood, E. E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, Laurence Yep, Annie Dillard, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe, Sandra Cisneros, Alex Haley, Robert Service, Walter Dean Myers, Emily Dickinson, James Herriot, James Dickey, Amy Tan, Joan Aiken, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Walter De la Mare, Aesop, Lucille Clifton, William Saroyan, James Thurber, Carl Sandburg, Karen Cushman, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Frost, Maxine Kumin, Gary Soto, O. Henry, Ogden Nash, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Nikki Giovanni, Wendy Rose, Virginia Hamilton, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Edward D. Hoch, Rod Serling, Bill Cosby, Chief Dan George, Pat Mora, Cynthia Rylant, Zora Neale Hurston, James Stephens, Piri Thomas, Russell Baker, James Ramsey Ullman, Olivia E. Coolidge, Courlander, Harold, Jacqueline Dineen, Reid Goldsborough, Richard Holler, Phillip Hoose, Israel Horovitz, Barbara Jordan, William W. Lace, Don Lessem, Naomi Long Madgett, Eve Merriam, Alfred Noyes, Raymond R. Patterson, Josephine Preston Peabody, Juliet Piggott, William Jay Smith, Geoffrey C. Ward, Anne Terry White, Kate Kinsella, Gillian Standing, Paul Stillwell, Jim Willard, Terry Willard, Jane Wilson: Literature (Hardcover, 2002, Pearson Prentice Hall) No rating

Literature

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William Shakespeare, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ray Bradbury, Octavio Paz, Isaac Asimov, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Arthur Miller, Walt Whitman, Arthur C. Clarke, Jack London, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Shel Silverstein, Maya Angelou, Jane Yolen, Chinua Achebe, Gwendolyn Brooks, E. E. Cummings, Langston Hughes, Lloyd Alexander, Laurence Yep, John Gardner, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe, , Sandra Cisneros, Martin Waddell, Garrison Keillor, Leslie Marmon Silko, Helen Keller, Jerry Spinelli, Julius Lester, Walter Dean Myers, Emily Dickinson, Jean Craighead George, Joan Aiken, Pat McKissack, Aesop, Joseph Bruchac, Russell Freedman, Julia Alvarez, Judith Viorst, Paul Zindel, Ken Burns, Richard Peck, Christopher Paul Curtis, Pam Muñoz Ryan, James Thurber, Robert Frost, Sara Teasdale, Gary Soto, Stephen Vincent Benét, Ogden Nash, Jesse Stuart, Nikki Giovanni, Virginia Hamilton, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, Kevin Feldman, Cynthia Rylant, Susan Nanus, James Berry, Bailey White, Russell Baker, Myron Levoy, Jack Prelutsky, Robert D. Ballard, Olivia E. Coolidge, Eve Merriam, Geoffrey C. Ward, John Phillip Santos, Susy Clemens, Rachel Field, Kate Kinsella, Diana Chang, Francisco Jiménez, George Laycock, Lensey Namioka, Colleen, Ph. D. Shea-stump, Joyce Armstrong Carroll, Edward E. Wilson, Charlotte Pomerantz, Carl Zebrowski, Arnold Adoff, Rosemary Benét, Fredrick McKissack, Jr., Amanda Borden, William Harwood, Kerry Cochrane, Lillian Morrison, Bashö, l. G. Edmonds, Ricardo E. Alegria, Tran, My-Van.: Prentice Hall Literature (Hardcover, 2002, Prentice Hall)

Prentice Hall Literature

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Ogden Nash: Ogden Nash's Zoo No rating

Ogden Nash's Zoo

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Ogden Nash: I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1994) No rating

I'm a Stranger Here Myself

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Ogden Nash: The Pocket Book of Ogden Nash (1990) No rating

The Pocket Book of Ogden Nash

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