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Mar 3, 2020 · Dorothy Parker (born Dorothy Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and satirist. Despite a roller coaster of a career that included a stint on a Hollywood blacklist, Parker produced a large volume of witty, successful work that has endured.
Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) Dorothy Parker was born to J. Henry and Elizabeth Rothschild on Aug. 22, 1893, at their summer home in West End, New Jersey. The family cottage was on Ocean Avenue; it burned down before World War I. Dorothy’s mother died in West End when she was four years old.
Nov 16, 2023 · Dorothy Parker was a legendary literary figure, known for her biting wit. She worked on such magazines as Vogue and Vanity Fair during the late 1910s. Parker went on to work as a book reviewer for ...
Jun 8, 2023 · (Actually, this quote attributed to Parker is a paraphrase. In 1932, the New York Herald Tribune asked her for a list of the most beautiful words. Dorothy said, “To me, the most beautiful word ...
May 5, 2010 · Eighty-Five from the Archive: Dorothy Parker. By Erin Overbey. May 5, 2010. This year is The New Yorker’s eighty-fifth anniversary. To celebrate, over eighty-five weekdays we will turn a ...
Aug 9, 1993 · Of the many rapid-burnout cases in American letters, one of the saddest is that of Dorothy Parker. Born a hundred years ago next Sunday, she was the last child of Henry Rothschild, a prosperous ...
Parker’s dependence on alcohol was, indeed, a prominent part of her life and surely shortened it. She often imbibed scotch but could drink “practically anything in a pinch except gin, which, plain or mixed, made her ill,” writes Meade. “Never did Dorothy appear drunk,” she says of Parker’s Round Table days. “But she was seldom ...
