# 3659 - 2002 37c Literary Arts: Ogden Nash
37¢ Ogden Nash
Literary Arts
City: Baltimore, MD
Quantity: 70,000,000
Printed by: Avery Dennison
Printing Method: Photogravure
Perforations: Serpentine Die Cut 11
Color: Multicolored
birth of ogden nash
Nash was descended from Abner Nash, a governor of North Carolina whose brother, Francis, was a Revolutionary War general and the namesake of Nashville, Tennessee. Nash’s father ran an import-export business and moved the family often.
From the time he was six years old, Nash loved to rhyme. He also liked to make up his own words whenever he couldn’t find a word that rhymed. Nash attended St. George’s School in Newport County, Rhode Island before going to Harvard University. However, he had to drop out after a year when his father’s finances declined.
Nash married in 1931, and that same year he published his first collection of poems, Hard Lines, which sold out an amazing seven printings in its first year. In 1933, Nash decided to write full time.
Nash died on May 19, 1971, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore from complications from Crohn’s disease. In his obituary, The New York Times called Nash “the country’s best-known producer of humorous poetry.”
The Ogden Nash stamp was issued on his 100th birthday at his Baltimore home. Six of his poems appear in the background of the stamp: “The Turtle,” “The Cow,” “Crossing the Border,” “The Kitten,” “Limerick One,” and “The Camel.”
Click here to read some of Nash’s poems.
37¢ Ogden Nash
Literary Arts
City: Baltimore, MD
Quantity: 70,000,000
Printed by: Avery Dennison
Printing Method: Photogravure
Perforations: Serpentine Die Cut 11
Color: Multicolored
birth of ogden nash
Nash was descended from Abner Nash, a governor of North Carolina whose brother, Francis, was a Revolutionary War general and the namesake of Nashville, Tennessee. Nash’s father ran an import-export business and moved the family often.
From the time he was six years old, Nash loved to rhyme. He also liked to make up his own words whenever he couldn’t find a word that rhymed. Nash attended St. George’s School in Newport County, Rhode Island before going to Harvard University. However, he had to drop out after a year when his father’s finances declined.
Nash married in 1931, and that same year he published his first collection of poems, Hard Lines, which sold out an amazing seven printings in its first year. In 1933, Nash decided to write full time.
Nash died on May 19, 1971, at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore from complications from Crohn’s disease. In his obituary, The New York Times called Nash “the country’s best-known producer of humorous poetry.”
The Ogden Nash stamp was issued on his 100th birthday at his Baltimore home. Six of his poems appear in the background of the stamp: “The Turtle,” “The Cow,” “Crossing the Border,” “The Kitten,” “Limerick One,” and “The Camel.”
Click here to read some of Nash’s poems.