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 principal home was in Baltimore, Maryland, where he died on May 19, 1971. He was buried in North Hampton, New Hampshire.
Poems by this Poet
| Poem |
Post date |
Rating | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Rhinoceros | 5 September 2014 |
(2 votes) |
0 |
| Invocation | 5 September 2014 |
(12 votes) |
0 |
| They Don't Speak English in Paris | 5 September 2014 |
(1 vote) |
0 |
| Sweet Bye and Bye | 5 September 2014 |
No votes yet |
0 |
| Lines to a World-famous Poet Who Failed to Complete a World-famous Poem; or, Come Clean, Mr. Guest! | 19 May 2014 |
No votes yet |
0 |
| Kind of an Ode to Duty | 19 May 2014 |
(4 votes) |
0 |
| Morning Prayer | 19 May 2014 |
(4 votes) |
0 |
| Round About | 19 May 2014 |
(1 vote) |
0 |
| The Sea-Gull and the Ea-Gull | 19 May 2014 |
(25 votes) |
0 |
| The Poultries | 19 May 2014 |
(21 votes) |
0 |