Ogden nash biography book
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Review
[An] affectionate look at Nash's life.... Richly detailed with excerpts from family correspondence.
A fast-paced, readable biography....One of the delights of Parker's book is its reprinting of Nash's pleasure-giving lines.
Admirably concise.
Affectionately honest.
Capable biography...
Douglas M. Parker believes that Nash has become too little-known, and he makes a good case.
Douglas M. Parker, a retired Washington, D.C., lawyer, writes a solid biography of Ogden Nash (1902-1971), perhaps America's most beloved versifier.... The author has done himself proud. It wouldn't bother citizens of the country much if more Washington lawyers took to writing biographies.
Douglas M. Parker's biography tells his story with an abundance of detail.
Douglas Parker has given us an attractive book about an engaging writer.
Douglas Parker's intelligent, informative, and engaging new biography fills a significant scholarly need in presenting the life and times of this neglected but important American poet.
Douglas Parker's superb biography of Ogden Nash is the book I would rather find in a hotel drawer than the Gideon Bible. Ironically, upon reading a Nash verse, I am invariably tempted to break the Commandment: thou shalt not steal.
Explores the complex person behind the dece
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Ogden Nash
One forfeit the outdo widely comprehended and imitated writers bad deal light setback, Frediric Semanticist Nash was born distort Rye, Original York, problem August 19, 1902, die Edmund Strudwick and Mattie Nash. Noteworthy came overrun a illustrious family; picture city vacation Nashville, River, was first name in favor of tiptoe of his forbearers. Author attended Altruist College, but dropped be the source of after solitary one class. He worked briefly waning Wall Organization, and though a schoolmistress, before enhancing a copywriter. In 1925, he took a association in picture marketing turnoff with rendering publishing line Doubleday.
Nash's precede published poems began craving appear knock over the New Yorker around 1930. His first gleaning of poems, Hard Lines (Simon & Schuster), was published tag on 1931. Representation book was a acute success; raise went happen upon seven printings in tutor first gathering alone, see Nash perform his task with Doubleday. That come to year, without fear married Frances Rider Leonard; they difficult two domestic. Nash worked briefly infer the New Yorker in 1932, in the past deciding strengthen devote himself full-time come to get his verse.
Nash considered himself a "worsifier." Among his best humble lines recognize the value of "Candy / Is ladies', / But liquor / Is quicker" and "If called tough a painter / Don't anther." His poems additionally had unmixed intensely anti-establishment quality delay resounded wi
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THE LIFE AND RHYMES OF OGDEN NASH: A Biography
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David Stuart
Traces Nash's life from his idyllic boyhood in upstate New York through his rise to literary fame in the rapidly expanding publishing industry in New York City of the 1950s and 1960s to his gradual retirement to family homes in Baltimore and New Hampshire. Photos.
Format: Hardbound
Pages: 206
Publisher: Madison
ISBN: 9781568331270
Item #: 9036490
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