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Born in 1902 / Died in 1971 / United States / English

Bibliography

SELECTED POETRY

  • The Cricket of Carador, by Nash and Joseph Alger (Garden City: Doubleday, Page, 1925).
  • Born in a Beer Garden or, She Troupes to Conquer, by Nash, Christopher Morley, Cleon Throckmorton, and others (New York: Foundry Press/R.C. Rimington, 1930).
  • Hard Lines (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1931); enlarged as Hard Lines, and Others (London: Duckworth, 1932)—adds selections from Free Wheeling.
  • Free Wheeling (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1931).
  • Happy Days (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1933).
  • Four Prominent So and So's, lyrics by Nash, music by Robert Armbruster (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1934).
  • The Primrose Path (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1935).
  • The Bad Parents' Garden of Verse (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1936).
  • I'm a Stranger Here Myself (Boston: Little, Brown, 1938; London: Gollancz, 1938).
  • The Face is Familiar: the Selected Verse of Ogden Nash (Boston: Little, Brown, 1940; London: Dent, 1942; revised edition, London: Dent, 1954).
  • Good Intentions (Boston: Little, Brown, 1942; enlarged edition, London: Dent, 1942; revised edition, London: Dent, 1956).
  • One Touch of Venus, by Nash and S. J. Perelman (Boston: Little, Brown, 1944).
  • Many Long Years Ago (Boston: Little, Brown, 1945; London: Dent, 1945).
  • Ogden Nash's Musical Zoo, music by Vernon Duke (Boston: Little, Brown, 1947).
  • Versus (Boston: Little, Brown, 1949; London: Dent, 1949).
  • Family Reunion (Boston: Little, Brown, 1950; London: Dent, 1951).
  • Parents Keep Out: Elderly Poems for Youngerly Readers (Boston: Little, Brown, 1951; enlarged edition, London: Dent, 1962).
  • The Private Dining Room, and Other New Verses (Boston: Little, Brown, 1953; London: Dent, 1953).
  • The Christmas That Almost Wasn't (Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown, 1957; London: Dent, 1958).
  • You Can't Get There from Here (Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown, 1957; London: Dent, 1957).
  • Custard the Dragon (Boston: Little, Brown, 1959; London: Dent, 1960).
  • Verse from 1929 On (Boston: Little, Brown, 1959); republished as Collected Verse from 1929 On (London: Dent, 1961).
  • A Boy Is a Boy: The Fun of Being a Boy (New York: Watts, 1960; London: Dent, 1961).
  • Scrooge Rides Again (Berkeley, Cal.: Hart, 1960).
  • Custard the Dragon and the Wicked Knight (Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown, 1961).
  • Everyone But Thee and Me (Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown, 1962; London: Dent, 1963).
  • Girls Are Silly (New York: Watts, 1962; London: Dent, 1964).
  • The New Nutcracker Suite and Other Innocent Verses (Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown, 1962).
  • The Adventures of Isabel (Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown, 1963).
  • A Boy and His Room (New York: Watts, 1963).
  • A Boy and His Room and The Adventures of Isabel (London: Dent, 1964).
  • Marriage Lines: Notes of a Student Husband (Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown, 1964; London: Dent, 1964).
  • The Untold Adventures of Santa Claus (Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown, 1964; London: Dent, 1965).
  • The Animal Garden (New York: Evans, 1965; London: Deutsch, 1972).
  • The Mysterious Ouphe (New York: Spadea Press, 1965).
  • The Cruise of the Aardvark (New York: Evans, 1967; London: Deutsch, 1972).
  • Santa Go Home: A Case History for Parents (Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown, 1967; London: Dent, 1968).
  • There's Always Another Windmill (Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown, 1968; London: Deutsch, 1969).
  • Bed Riddance: A Posy for the Indisposed (Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown, 1970; London: Deutsch, 1971).
  • The Old Dog Barks Backwards (Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown, 1972; London: Deutsch, 1973).
  • I Wouldn't Have Missed It: Selected Poems of Ogden Nash, selected by Linnel Smith and Isabel Eberstadt (Boston & Toronto: Little, Brown, 1972).

PLAYS

  • One Touch of Venus, by Nash and S. J. Perelman, music by Kurt Weil, New York, Imperial Theatre, 7 October 1943.

SCREENPLAYS

  • The Firefly, MGM, 1937.
  • The Shining Hair, by Nash and Jane Murfin, MGM, 1938.
  • The Feminine Touch, by Nash, George Oppenheimer, and Edmund L. Hartman, MGM, 1941.

OTHER

  • P. G. Wodehouse, Nothing But Wodehouse, edited by Nash (Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1932).