Oscar Ogg

He was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1908 and graduated from the University of Illinois in 1931.^[1] He worked for the Book-of-the-Month club and also studied, lectured on, and practiced calligraphy in New York. In 1946, his book The 26 Letters was published by Crowell. This was a history of the alphabet from Phoenician times to the present.^[2] Ogg developed typefaces and fonts still in use in the 21st century.^[3] He died in 1971 in Stamford, Connecticut.^[1]