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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 413 copies, 7 reviews
The Tale of Custard the Dragon 263 copies, 8 reviews
I'm a Stranger Here Myself 220 copies, 1 review
Ogden Nash's Zoo 208 copies, 3 reviews
Good Intentions 191 copies
Candy Is Dandy: The Best of Ogden Nash 181 copies, 1 review
Bed riddance; a posy for the indisposed 173 copies, 2 reviews
Versus 173 copies, 1 review
The Private Dining Room 168 copies
The Adventures of Isabel 167 copies, 3 reviews
Selected Poetry of Ogden Nash 167 copies, 1 review
The Face is Familiar 167 copies
Many Long Years Ago 156 copies
The Old Dog Barks Backwards. 153 copies, 2 reviews

You Can't Get There from Here 130 copies, 2 reviews

Everyone but thee and me 130 copies, 1 review

Marriage lines; notes of a student husband 126 copies, 1 review

I Wouldn't Have Missed It: Selected Poems of Ogden Nash 109 copies

Verses from 1929 on 94 copies, 1 review

Custard and company: Poems 94 copies, 2 reviews

The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash 84 copies, 1 review

Custard the Dragon and the Wicked Knight 76 copies, 4 reviews

Food 71 copies

A Penny Saved Is Impossible 70 copies

There's Always Another Windmill 57 copies

Family Reunion 55 copies, 1 review

Funniest Verses of Ogden Nash 44 copies

Parents Keep Out: Elderly Poems for Youngerly Readers 42 copies, 4 reviews

The Christmas That Almost Wasn't 41 copies

Hard lines, 30 copies

Moon Is Shining Bright As Day 25 copies, 1 review

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Winter Poems (Contributor) 706 copies, 9 reviews
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (Contributor) 604 copies, 5 reviews
Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural: A Treasury of Spellbinding… (Contributor) 382 copies, 3 reviews
The Lure of the Limerick (Contributor) 218 copies, 3 reviews
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work From Tennyson to… (Contributor) 121 copies, 1 review
American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (Contributor) 111 copies, 2 reviews
Fun Fare: A Treasury of Reader's Digest Wit and Humor (Contributor) 87 copies, 4 reviews
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball (Contributor) 82 copies
Haunted America: Star-Spangled Supernatural Stories (Contributor) 80 copies
Nothing But Wodehouse (Editor) 69 copies
The Scroobious Pip (Contributor, some editions; some editions) 69 copies, 2 reviews
Ten Great Musicals of the American Theatre (Contributor) 64 copies, 1 review
65 Great Spine Chillers (Contributor) 52 copies, 2 reviews
Beastly Verse (Contributor) 50 copies, 6 reviews

The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (Contributor) 45 copies

Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 2: Love, Marriage,… (Contributor) 25 copies

Great Baseball Stories (Contributor) 25 copies

The Savannah cook book; a collection of the old fashioned receipts from… (Introduction, some editions) 21 copies, 2 reviews

A Treasury of American Humor (Contributor) 18 copies, 1 review

Ellery Queen's Poetic Justice (Author, some editions) 16 copies

The Panorama Of Modern Literature (Contributor) 12 copies, 1 review

Kurt Weill - From Berlin To Broadway (Author) 11 copies

The Voice of the Poet: American Wits (Contributor) 8 copies

Save Your Love for Me (Composer) 1 copy

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Canonical name

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Nash, Frederic Ogden

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Date of death

Burial location

Little Boar's Head, New Hampshire, USA

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Birthplace

Rye, New York, USA

Place of death

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Places of residence

New York, New York, USA

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Education

Harvard University

St. George's School, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA

Occupations

Relationships

Eberstadt, Isabel (daughter)

Eberstadt, Fernanda (granddaughter)

Organizations

American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1950)

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