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Ogden Nash (1902–1971)

Author of The Pocket Book of Ogden Nash

Includes the names: Ogfen Nash, Nash Ogden, Odgen Nash

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Works by Ogden Nash
The Pocket Book of Ogden Nash 472 copies, 6 reviews
The Tale of Custard the Dragon 312 copies, 9 reviews
Ogden Nash's Zoo 237 copies, 4 reviews
I'm a Stranger Here Myself 237 copies, 1 review
Good Intentions 206 copies
The Adventures of Isabel 200 copies, 4 reviews
Candy Is Dandy: The Best of Ogden Nash 199 copies, 1 review
Versus 198 copies, 2 reviews
Bed riddance; a posy for the indisposed 194 copies, 2 reviews
The Face is Familiar 194 copies
The Private Dining Room 192 copies, 2 reviews
Selected Poetry of Ogden Nash 189 copies, 2 reviews
The Old Dog Barks Backwards. 172 copies, 3 reviews
Many Long Years Ago 169 copies
You Can't Get There from Here 149 copies, 2 reviews
Everyone but thee and me 148 copies, 2 reviews
Marriage lines; notes of a student husband 135 copies, 1 review
I Wouldn't Have Missed It: Selected Poems of Ogden Nash 129 copies
Custard and Company 109 copies, 2 reviews
Verses from 1929 on 107 copies, 2 reviews
The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash 98 copies, 1 review
Custard the Dragon and the Wicked Knight 89 copies, 4 reviews
A Penny Saved Is Impossible 81 copies
Food 74 copies
There's Always Another Windmill 66 copies
Family Reunion 64 copies, 1 review
Funniest Verses of Ogden Nash 54 copies
Parents Keep Out: Elderly Poems for Youngerly Readers 47 copies, 4 reviews
The Christmas That Almost Wasn't 43 copies
Moon Is Shining Bright As Day 33 copies, 1 review
Hard lines, 33 copies
The Animal Garden 31 copies
Ave Ogden!: Nash in Latin 28 copies, 1 review
Carnival of the Animals 28 copies, 1 review
Under Water With Ogden Nash 26 copies
Ogden Nash: Versus / Good Intentions / Private Dining Room / Many Long… 26 copies
Beastly poetry (Treasures) 24 copies, 1 review
The untold adventures of Santa Claus 15 copies
Lineup for Yesterday 14 copies, 1 review
One Touch of Venus 13 copies
The Cruise of the Aardvark 13 copies
The New Nutcracker Suite and Other Innocent Verses 12 copies
Free Wheeling 12 copies
The primrose path; 12 copies
The Bad Parents' Garden of Verse 11 copies
I Couldn't Help Laughing 8 copies
Santa Go Home: A Case History for Parents 8 copies
Everybody Ought to Know 7 copies
Marriage Line 6 copies
The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash, Modern Library No. 191 6 copies
Happy Days 6 copies
A boy is a boy;: The fun of being a boy 5 copies
One Touch of Venus (Vocal Selections) 5 copies
Ogden Nash (Versus, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Good Intentions, 3 volume… 5 copies
The Hippopotamus {poem} 4 copies
A Boy and His Room 4 copies
Poetry of Ogden Nash, 6 Volumes 4 copies
The Mysterious Ouphe 4 copies
The Moon Is Shining Bright As Day, An Anthology of Good-Humored Verse… 4 copies
Many Long Years Ago by Ogden Nash 1945 Vintage Classic Poetry Dust Jacket 3 copies
Ogden Nash Collection of Books - COLLECTABLE ITEMS (Versus, I'm a Stranger… 3 copies
Christmas With Ogden Nash 2 copies
girls are silly 2 copies
Private Dining Room & Other New Verses, The containing chiefly poems from… 2 copies
Der Kuckuck führt ein Lotterleben. Purzelreime 2 copies
Good Intentions, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Many Long Years Ago,… 1 copy
THE LITTLEST REVUE - 1956 ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING LP 1 copy
Speak Low (When You Speak Low) from "One Touch of Venus" [sheet music] 1 copy
Everybody Knows the Trouble I've Seen 1 copy, 1 review
Your Friends Are My Friends 1 copy
Home Is the Golfer 1 copy
Collected Verse 1 copy
Ogden Nash 6 Volume Set: I'm a Stranger Here Myself; Good Intentions;… 1 copy
Everyone but Thee and Me by Ogden Nash (1985-07-03) 1 copy
Westwind from "One Touch of Venus" [sheet music] 1 copy
The Bad Parents' Garden of Verse Reginal Birch illustrator 1 copy
Ich bin leider hier auch fremd : ausgewaehlte Gedichte - I am a stranger… 1 copy
Everybody Knows The Trouble I've Seen 1 copy
I COULDN'T HELP LAUGHING. Stories Selected and Introduced By Ogden… 1 copy
Holiday Collection CD 1 copy
Many Long Years Ago Verses 1 copy
That's Him from "One Touch of Venus"; music by Kurt Weill, lyrics by Ogden… 1 copy
Ogden Nash 6 Volume Set: I'm a Stranger Here Myself; Good Intentions; Many… 1 copy
The Seven Spiritual Ages of Mrs. Marmaduke Moore (Interpreting Literature… 1 copy
The Outcome of Mr. Macleod's Gratitude 1 copy
Friend of My Friend 1 copy
Ogden Nash reads Ogden Nash 1 copy
The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus [poem] 1 copy
The Book of Ogden Nash 1 copy
A Caution to Everybody 1 copy
Kill or Be Killed 1 copy
Octopus, The 1 copy
Dog, The 1 copy
Loving letters from Ogden Nash : a family album 1 copy
Versus, I'm a Stranger Here Myself 1 copy
Carnival of the Animals 1 copy
The Art of Living Together 1 copy
The Centipede {poem} 1 copy
The Ant {poem} 1 copy
Locust Lovers, Attention! 1 copy, 1 review
The Sea-Gull [poem] 1 copy
W świecie mułów nie ma regułów 1 copy
The Purist {poem} 1 copy
The Calf {poem} 1 copy
An Introduction to Dogs {poem} 1 copy
Fellow Creatures: The Neighbors; The Japanese; The Northerners; The King… 1 copy, 1 review
Midsummer's Daymare {poem} 1 copy, 1 review
Washington's Birthday Eve {poem} 1 copy
Nash's Smashes 1 copy
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Also by Ogden Nash
Winter Poems (Contributor) 926 copies, 10 reviews
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (Contributor) 651 copies, 6 reviews
Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink (Contributor) 488 copies, 9 reviews
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural: A Treasury of Spellbinding… (Contributor) 461 copies, 3 reviews
A Pocket Book of Modern Verse (Contributor, some editions) 404 copies, 1 review
American Poetry : The Twentieth Century, Volume 2 : E.E. Cummings to May… (Contributor) 372 copies, 1 review
The Lure of the Limerick (Contributor) 254 copies, 7 reviews
The 40s: The Story of a Decade (Contributor) 227 copies, 4 reviews
The Literary Cat (Contributor) 217 copies
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to… (Contributor) 131 copies, 1 review
American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (Contributor) 123 copies, 3 reviews
The Saturday Evening Post Treasury (Contributor) 117 copies
Haunted America: Star-Spangled Supernatural Stories (Contributor) 97 copies, 1 review
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball (Contributor) 97 copies
Fun Fare: A Treasury of Reader's Digest Wit and Humor (Contributor) 96 copies, 4 reviews
The Scroobious Pip (Author, some editions) 89 copies, 3 reviews
Norton Book of Friendship (Contributor) 87 copies
Nothing But Wodehouse (Editor) 79 copies
Ten Great Musicals of the American Theatre (Contributor) 75 copies, 2 reviews
Beastly Verse (Contributor) 69 copies, 7 reviews
65 Great Spine Chillers (Contributor) 66 copies, 2 reviews
The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (Contributor) 60 copies
Laughing Space: An Anthology of Science Fiction Humour (Contributor) 48 copies, 2 reviews
Great Baseball Stories (Contributor) 38 copies
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 2: Love, Marriage,… (Contributor) 35 copies
The Savannah cook book; a collection of the old fashioned receipts from… (Introduction, some editions) 25 copies, 2 reviews
This Slimming Business (Contributor) 20 copies
A Treasury of American Humor (Contributor) 18 copies, 1 review
Ellery Queen's Poetic Justice (Author, some editions) 17 copies
The Panorama of Modern Literature (Contributor) 14 copies, 1 review
The Defective Detective: Mystery Parodies by the Great Humorists (Contributor) 12 copies
Kurt Weill: From Berlin To Broadway (Piano/Vocal/Songbook) (Author) 11 copies
The Voice of the Poet: American Wits (Contributor) 9 copies
Men And Women: The Poetry Of Love (Contributor) 7 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 5, January 1974 (Contributor) 6 copies
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (Contributor) 5 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 5, January 1981 (Contributor) 3 copies
The Bathroom Reader (Contributor) 3 copies
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 6, February 1981 (Contributor) 3 copies
Nothing Solemn: An anthology of comic verse (Contributor) 3 copies, 1 review
Diners' Delight: the Best of the Diners' Club Magazine (Contributor) 1 copy
Ogden Nash's The Tales of Custard the Dragon 1 copy
Save Your Love for Me (Songwriter) 1 copy
Cricket Magazine, Vol. 7, No. 11, July 1980 (Contributor) 1 copy
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Canonical name
Legal name
Nash, Frederic Ogden
Other names
Date of birth
1902-08-19
Date of death
1971-05-19
Burial location
Little Boar's Head, New Hampshire, USA
Gender
male
Nationality
USA
Country (for map)
Birthplace
Rye, New York, USA
Place of death
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Cause of death
Crohn's disease
Places of residence
New York, New York, USA
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Education
Harvard University
St. George's School, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
Occupations
poet
teacher
editor
copy writer
Relationships
Eberstadt, Isabel (daughter)
Eberstadt, Fernanda (granddaughter)
Organizations
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1950)
Awards and honors
Agents
Edith Haggard
Short biography
Disambiguation notice

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