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Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and writer of fiction, plays and screenplays based in New York; she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
Jun 3, 2024 · Dorothy Parker (born August 22, 1893, West End, near Long Beach, New Jersey, U.S.—died June 7, 1967, New York, New York) was an American short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and critic known for her witty—and often acerbic—remarks.
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...
Jun 7, 2017 · On the 50th anniversary of her death, Hephzibah Anderson looks beyond Dorothy Parker’s wisecracks to find another side of the legendary wit.
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.
Raised on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Dorothy Parker built a career that was defined by her wit and her incisive commentary on contemporary America. She was born two months prematurely at her family’s summer home in West End, New Jersey.
Dorothy Parker - A founding member of the Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker's work was known for its scathing wit and intellectual commentary.
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.
Dorothy Parker Biography. Dorothy Parker once joked that she married her first husband to escape her name (Rothschild). She was a vibrant and complicated woman who is mainly remembered for...
Writer Dorothy Parker, pictured here in August 1944, worked as a freelance most of her life but also had stints with Vanity Fair, Vogue, and the New Yorker.
