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Birth date
08/19/1902
Death date
05/19/1971
Birth town
New York
Country
USA
Poems by this Poet
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Look What You Did, Christopher
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Lines Indited With All The Depravity Of Poverty
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Lines On Facing Forty
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Lines To Be Embroidered On A Bib
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Listen..
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Lather As You Go
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Kipling's Vermont
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Just Keep Quiet and Nobody Will Notice
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Introspective Reflection
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I'll Get One Tomorrow
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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.