My Life and Hard Times
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My Life and Hard Times is the 1933 autobiography of James Thurber. It is considered his greatest work as he relates in bewildered deadpan prose the eccentric goings on of his family and the town beyon
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Ogden Nash
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Frederic Ogden Nash was an American poet well known for his light verse, of which he wrote more than 500 pieces. With his unconventional rhyming schemes, he was declared by The New York Times to be th
My Life and Hard Times
…achieved high critical praise. Russell Baker writing in the New York Times said it was "possibly the shortest and most elegant autobiography ever". Ogden Nash said it was "just about the best thing I ever read"', and Dorothy Parker said "Mad, I don't say. Genius I grant you." ISBN 978-0060933081…
Nash and Dagmar from the television game show Masquerade Party, 1955
Nash at Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, in 1949