Editing Ogden Nash (section)

==Personal life==
In 1931, he married Frances Leonard, of Baltimore.<ref name="chicagotribune/baltimore-photogallery">{{cite news |title=Baltimore's famous literary figures and their favorite local haunts |url=<!-- https://web.archive.org/web/20230701204839/https://www.chicagotribune.com/bal-baltimore-s-literary-haunts-20171017-photogallery.html -->https://www.chicagotribune.com/bal-baltimore-s-literary-haunts-20171017-photogallery.html |access-date=1 July 2023 |work=Chicago Tribune |date=7 November 2017}}</ref><ref name="baltimoreauthors/ogdennash">{{cite web |title=Ogden Nash |url=http://baltimoreauthors.ubalt.edu/writers/ogdennash.htm |website=baltimoreauthors.ubalt.edu |access-date=1 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070429085502/http://baltimoreauthors.ubalt.edu/writers/ogdennash.htm |archive-date=29 April 2007}}</ref><ref name="baltimoresun/1994-06-17-Frances">{{cite news |last1=Rasmussen |first1=Fred |title=Frances Leonard Nash, poet's widow active in charities, patron of the arts |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1994-06-17-1994168056-story.html |access-date=1 July 2023 |work=Baltimore Sun |date=1994-06-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210620233739/https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1994-06-17-1994168056-story.html |archive-date=20 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://baltimoreauthors.ubalt.edu/writers/ogdennash.htm|title=Ogden Nash|website=baltimoreauthors.ubalt.edu|access-date=April 5, 2018|archive-date=November 6, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111106194658/http://baltimoreauthors.ubalt.edu/writers/ogdennash.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 1934, Nash moved his family to his in-laws' mansion in [[Guilford, Baltimore]], [[Maryland]], where he remained until his death in 1971.<ref name="baltimoresun/nash-house-guilford">{{cite news |title=Former Ogden Nash house in Guilford [Pictures] |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/features/home/bal-ogden-nash-house-in-guilford-pictures-20130620-photogallery.html |access-date=1 July 2023 |work=Baltimore Sun |date=20 June 2013}}</ref> Nash thought of Baltimore as home. After his return from a brief move to New York, he wrote: "I could have loved New York had I not loved Balti-more."<ref>{{cite web|first=Nathan|last= Dennies|date=November 27, 2018|url=https://explore.baltimoreheritage.org/items/show/270|title=Ogden Nash at 4300 Rugby Road|work=Explore Baltimore Heritage|access-date=April 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121074904/https://explore.baltimoreheritage.org/items/show/270|archive-date=January 21, 2021|url-status=live}}</ref>

Nash's daughter Isabel was married to noted photographer Frederick Eberstadt. His granddaughter, Frances R. Smith,<ref name="baltimoresun/2001-10-31-0135">{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Frances R. |title=Poet left indelible mark on family, society |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2001-10-31-0110310135-story.html |access-date=1 July 2023 |work=Baltimore Sun |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712031132/https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2001-10-31-0110310135-story.html |archive-date=12 July 2021}}</ref> is an author. Another granddaughter, [[Fernanda Eberstadt]], is an acclaimed author, and his grandson is political economist [[Nicholas Eberstadt]]. Nash had one other daughter, author Linell Nash Smith.<ref name="baltimoresun/ob-linell-smith-20220820">{{cite news |title=Linell Chenault Smith, an author, horse enthusiast and last surviving daughter of poet Ogden Nash, dies |url=<!-- https://web.archive.org/web/20230327081806/https://www.baltimoresun.com/obituaries/bs-md-ob-linell-smith-20220820-3gdk7bwmkrh2zmpowwfhytnzv4-story.html -->https://www.baltimoresun.com/obituaries/bs-md-ob-linell-smith-20220820-3gdk7bwmkrh2zmpowwfhytnzv4-story.html |access-date=1 July 2023 |work=Baltimore Sun |date=20 August 2022}}</ref><ref name="nytimes/1951/06/25/linell-nash-engaged">{{cite news |title=MISS LINELL NASH BECOMES ENGAGED; Daughter of Poet Will Be Wed to John M. Smith, Who Served in Pacific With Army |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1951/06/25/archives/miss-linell-nash-becomes-engaged-daughter-of-poet-will-be-wed-to.html |access-date=1 July 2023 |work=The New York Times |agency=Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES |date=25 June 1951}}</ref>

Nash died at Baltimore's [[Johns Hopkins Hospital]] on May 19, 1971, of [[Crohn's Disease]],<ref name="j-pouch/famous-with-crohns">{{cite web |title=Famous Persons With UC/Crohn's Disease |url=https://www.j-pouch.org/topic/famous-persons-with-uc-crohn-s-disease |website=The J-Pouch Group |access-date=1 July 2023 |language=en |date=1 April 2015}}</ref><ref>[https://guilfordassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/guilford_newsletter_summer_2019.pdf ''The Guilford News''], Summer 2019.</ref> aggravated by a [[lactobacillus]] infection transmitted by improperly prepared coleslaw.<ref name="baltimoreheritage/270">{{cite web |last1=Dennies |first1=Nathan |title=Ogden Nash at 4300 Rugby Road |url=https://explore.baltimoreheritage.org/items/show/270 |website=Explore Baltimore Heritage |access-date=1 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="NYTobit"/> He is buried in East Cemetery in [[North Hampton, New Hampshire]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Guide to the Ogden Nash Letters, 1968–1969|date=December 21, 2007 |url=https://www.library.unh.edu/find/archives/collections/ogden-nash-letters-1968-1969|publisher=University of New Hampshire|access-date=April 11, 2017}}</ref>

At the time of his death in 1971, ''[[The New York Times]]'' said his "droll verse with its unconventional [[rhyme]]s made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry."<ref name="NYTobit"/>