Editing Ogden Nash (section)

==Early life ==
Nash was born on August 19, 1902, in [[Rye, New York|Rye]], [[New York (state)|New York]], on Milton Point,<ref name="myrye/nash-native-son">{{cite web |last1=Beechey |first1=Alan |title=Recognizing Ogden Nash, Native Son of Rye |url=https://myrye.com/my_weblog/2011/03/recognizing-ogden-nash-native-son-of-rye.html |website=MyRye.com |access-date=1 July 2023 |date=18 March 2011}}</ref> the son of Mattie (Chenault) and Edmund Strudwick Nash.<ref name="Lehman2006">{{cite book|first=David |last=Lehman |title=The Oxford Book of American Poetry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gO0AK7qCvmoC&pg=PA475 |year=2006 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-516251-6 |page=475}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.notablebiographies.com/Mo-Ni/Nash-Ogden.html|title=Ogden Nash Biography - life, family, children, parents, death, school, book, information, born, movie|website=notablebiographies.com|access-date=April 5, 2018}}</ref> Nash was baptized at Christ's Church.<ref name="myrye/nash-native-son"/> At two years old, his family had a house called "Ramaqua", on 50 acres near [[Port Chester]].<ref name="myrye/nash-native-son"/><ref name="blog.ogdennash/2012/07/birthplace"/> His father owned and operated a <!-- ?: import–export --> [[turpentine]] company.<ref name="blog.ogdennash/2012/07/birthplace">{{cite web |title=The Search for Ogden Nash's Birthplace |url=http://blog.ogdennash.org/2012/07/search-for-ogden-nashs-birthplace.html |website=blog.ogdennash.org |access-date=1 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130913010936/http://blog.ogdennash.org/2012/07/search-for-ogden-nashs-birthplace.html |archive-date=2013-09-13 |date=July 15, 2012}}</ref>

Because of business obligations, the family often relocated. Nash was descended from [[Abner Nash]], an early governor of North Carolina. The city of [[Nashville, Tennessee]], was named after Abner's brother, [[Francis Nash|Francis]], a Revolutionary War general.<ref name="NCHistory">{{cite web|title=NC Highway Markers, printable view|url=http://www.ncmarkers.com/print_marker.aspx?MarkerId=G-10|website=North Carolina Office of Archives and History|access-date=May 18, 2015|archive-date=July 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190715220140/http://www.ncmarkers.com/print_marker.aspx?MarkerId=G-10|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor1-last=Powell|editor1-first=William|title=Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, v4|page=358}}</ref>

Throughout his life, Nash loved to rhyme. "I think in terms of rhyme, and have since I was six years old", he stated in a 1958 news interview.<ref name="APQuote">{{Cite news |first=Hal |last=Boyle |title=Ogden Nash Finds Light Verse Doesn't Flow Easy |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=zu0KAAAAIBAJ&pg=6654,1365475 |agency=Associated Press |work=Prescott Evening Courier |date=December 1, 1958 |access-date=19 October 2008 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He had a fondness for crafting his own words whenever rhyming words did not exist but admitted that crafting rhymes was not always the easiest task.<ref name="APQuote"/>

His family lived briefly in [[Savannah, Georgia]], in a carriage house owned by [[Juliette Gordon Low]], the founder of the [[Girl Scouts of the USA]]. He wrote a poem about [[Andrew Low House|Mrs. Low's House]]. After graduating from [[St. George's School (Rhode Island)|St. George's School]] in [[Newport County, Rhode Island]], Nash entered [[Harvard University]] in 1920, only to drop out a year later.

He taught at St. George's for one year and then returned to New York.<ref name="georev">{{cite journal |last=Phillips |first=Louis |title=Reviewed work(s): ''Ogden Nash: The Life and Work of America's Laureate of Light Verse'' by Douglas M. Parker |journal=The Georgia Review |year=2005 |volume=59 |issue=4 |page=961 |jstor=41402690}}</ref> There, he took up selling bonds about which Nash reportedly quipped, "Came to New York to make my fortune as a bond salesman and in two years sold one bond—to my godmother.<ref name="NYTobit" /> However, I saw lots of good movies."<ref name="georev"/> Nash then took a position as a writer of the [[streetcar]] card ads for [[Barron Collier]],<ref name="georev"/> a company that had employed [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]], another resident of [[Baltimore]] (Nash's permanent home). While working as an editor at [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]], he submitted some short rhymes to ''[[The New Yorker]]''. The editor [[Harold Ross]] wrote Nash to ask for more: "They are about the most original stuff we have had lately."<ref>{{cite web|title=Ogden Nash – Master of Pace and Rhyme|url= https://www.theattic.space/home-page-blogs/2019/3/14/master-of-pace-and-rhyme|website=The Attic|access-date=19 March 2019}}</ref> Nash spent three months in 1931 working on the editorial staff for ''The New Yorker''.<ref name="georev"/><ref name=Hasley>{{cite journal|last=Hasley|first=Louis|title=The Golden Trashery of Ogden Nashery|journal=The Arizona Quarterly|year=1971|volume=27|issue=3|page=242}}</ref>

In 1931, Nash published his first collection of poems, ''Hard Lines'', the same year, which earned him national recognition.<ref name="CbsStamp">{{cite news|last1=Vries|first1=Lloyd|title=Postage Stamp Bash / For Ogden Nash|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/postage-stamp-bash-for-ogden-nash/|access-date=April 11, 2017|publisher=CBS News|date=July 19, 2002}}</ref> Some of his poems reflected an anti-establishment feeling. For example, one verse, titled "Common Sense", asks:

{{poemquote|Why did the Lord give us agility,
If not to evade responsibility?}}