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Mar 3, 2020 · Updated on March 03, 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’s stunning wit and tragic life. 7 June 2017. By Hephzibah Anderson,Features correspondent. Getty Images. On the 50th anniversary of her death, Hephzibah Anderson looks beyond ...
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. Grow.
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. By the time she was five, she had lost her mother; by age…
Read poems by this poet. On August 22, 1893, Dorothy Parker was born to J. Henry and Elizabeth Rothschild, at their summer home in West End, New Jersey. Growing up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, her childhood was an unhappy one.
Jun 16, 2017 · A bestselling poet who moved on to fiction, Dorothy Parker, who died 50 years ago this month, single-handedly invented “the New Yorker short story”, the kind of...
But we don’t hear much about Dorothy Parker these days, although her sardonic poems, essays, and short stories remain reliably in print. Half a century after her death, she’s remembered—to the degree she’s widely remembered at all—as a belle of the bon mot, the razor-tongued epigrammatist who held court with other intellectual ...
