Oscar Ogg (1908-1971) was an American calligrapher and writer. 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 aldo 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 died in 1971 in Stamford, Connecticut[3]