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Edith Nash was born on 12 July, 1913 in Oak Park, Illinois, US, is an Edith Nash was American educator and poet American educator and poet. Discover Edith Nash's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 90 years old?

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Age 90 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 12 July 1913
Birthday 12 July
Birthplace Oak Park, Illinois, US
Date of death 9 November, 2003
Died Place Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, US
Nationality United States

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1913

Edith Nash (July 12, 1913 – November 9, 2003) was an American educator and poet.

Edith Henriet Rosenfels was born in 1913 as the youngest child and only girl in a Jewish family in Oak Park, Illinois.

She had three older brothers: Richard, and identical twins Paul and Walter.

1930

Edith Nash, also trained as an anthropologist, did field work in the American West in the 1930s among Native Americans.

Their children were daughters Maggie and Sally.

Paul Rosenfels became a board-certified psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in Chicago, but taught as well as having a clinical practice.

Included in it are poems about her 1930s "coming out" party at a Chicago speakeasy, meeting "Ernie" Hemingway through his younger sister in 1929 at their parents' house, and progressive causes she had championed.

1935

Their father Irwin S. Rosenfels, a businessman, died in 1935.

In terms of family dynamics, Edith believed she was the favorite of their father; she said he found the boys difficult to deal with, and Richard was preferred by their mother.

Richard earned a PhD in botany; Paul became a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, and Walter worked in advertising as a copy writer.

As they grew up, the three brothers realized they were homosexual, but never discussed it openly with their parents.

Edith Rosenfels met her future husband Philleo Nash while in college at the University of Chicago.

He roomed for a time with her older brother Paul and was getting his PhD in anthropology.

On November 2, 1935, they married.

1940

He left academia in the 1940s, serving in the military and then in the California prison system.

He published a book against psychoanalysis.

He was the only brother to marry and have a child, but left his family when he moved to California.

1942

After the Nashes moved to Washington, D.C., in 1942 when Philleo gained a position in the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, Edith Nash became the second director and co-founder of the Georgetown Day School, the first racially integrated school in the capital.

1960

They returned to Washington in the early 1960s, when Philleo served as Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs under John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

He always said was the best job he ever had.

1961

She served as the second director of the Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C., from 1961-1975.

She and her husband Philleo Nash, who served as a political appointee in several Democratic presidential administrations, lived most of their lives in Wisconsin.

She published several collections of poetry, and her work has been included in anthologies.

She served there from 1961 to 1975.

After they left Washington, the Nashes settled in Philleo's home town of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin.

1962

After living there as a homosexual, he moved to New York City in 1962.

1965

Edith later described their mother Helen (d. 1965) as politically liberal; for years she was on the Abraham Lincoln Center Board on the South Side of Chicago.

1971

He started a private practice and in 1971 published a book about homosexuality, saying it was as valid as heterosexuality.

1973

In 1973 he and Dean Hannottee with students co-founded the Ninth Street Center in New York City for the study of humanity.

It included peer counseling and group discussions.

1990

After her husband's death in 1990, she managed their family Biron, Wisconsin, cranberry marsh and processing business mostly from there.

They had also often stayed at their cottage in Biron.

She became active in local and state politics, and was an early supporter of U.S. Senator Russ Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat.

Edith Nash also wrote poetry and critical essays.

2001

Practice: The Here and Now (Cross+Roads Press, 2001), her best-known book, includes a sample of her poetry and prose.

Her life was celebrated in the poem "When You're Eighty-Five," written by her friend Mark Scarborough and published in the summer 2001 issue of the Wisconsin Academy Review.

Among Nash's other writer friends were Muriel Rukeyser and Frances Hamerstrom.

Nash, an inspiration for generations of writers in central Wisconsin, also was a tireless advocate of free expression during her tenure as a member of a book review committee of the Wisconsin Rapids Public Schools.

She founded the Riverwood Roundtable, a writing group and literary society.

Elisa Derickson was a student member of the Roundtable.