Ogden Nash Biography

Fast Facts

• In 2002, he was featured on a commemorative U․S․ postage stamp
• Spent a year studying at Harvard Unversity before leaving the school in 1921
• Before becoming a writer, he worked as a teacher for a year
• Was well known for possessing a humorous poetic style
• In 1931, his first collection of poems, "Hard Lines," was published
• Worked as the lyracist for the Broadway production "One Touch of Venus․"
• Once worked as a writer of streetcar card advertisements for entrepreneur Barron Collier