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    Dorothy Parker

    Dorothy Parker was born in West End, New Jersey, in 1893 and grew up in New York, attending a Catholic convent school and Miss Dana's School in Morristown, New Jersey. In 1916 she sold some of her poetry to the editor of Vogue and was subsequently given an editorial position at the magazine, writing captions for fashion photographs and drawings. Parker then became a drama critic at Vanity Fair and the central figure of the celebrated Algonquin Round Table. Famous for her spoken wit, she showed the same trenchant commentary in her book reviews for The New Yorker and Esquire and in her poems and sketches. Her collections of poems include Not So Deep as a Well and Enough Rope, which became a bestseller, and her collections of stories include Here Lies. Parker also collaborated with Elmer Rice on a play, Close Harmony, and with Arnaud d'Usseau on the play The Ladies of the Corridor. She had two Broadway productions written about her and was portrayed as a character in a third. Her cynicism and the concentration of her judgements were famous, and she has been closely associated with modern urbane humor. Her first husband was Edwin Pond Parker II, and although they were divorced some years later, she continued to use his name, which she much preferred to her own of Rothschild. Parker's second husband was actor-writer Alan Campbell. They went to Hollywood as a writing team and had a tempestuous marriage until his death in 1963, when she returned to New York. Parker died in 1967.
    Enough Rope
    Enough Rope
    A Book of Light Verse
    Dorothy Parker
    9780593466353
    $11.00 US
    Paperback
    Jan 25, 2022
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Complete Poems
    Complete Poems
    Dorothy Parker
    9780143106081
    $21.00 US
    Paperback
    Apr 06, 2010
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    The Ladies of the Corridor
    The Ladies of the Corridor
    Dorothy Parker , Arnaud d'Usseau
    9780143105312
    $17.00 US
    Paperback
    Apr 29, 2008
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    The Portable Dorothy Parker
    The Portable Dorothy Parker
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Dorothy Parker , Seth
    9780143039532
    $26.00 US
    Paperback
    Mar 28, 2006
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Complete Stories
    Complete Stories
    Dorothy Parker
    9780142437216
    $20.00 US
    Paperback
    Dec 31, 2002
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

    Books

    Enough Rope
    Enough Rope
    A Book of Light Verse
    Dorothy Parker
    9780593466353
    $11.00 US
    Paperback
    Jan 25, 2022
    Vintage
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Complete Poems
    Complete Poems
    Dorothy Parker
    9780143106081
    $21.00 US
    Paperback
    Apr 06, 2010
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    The Ladies of the Corridor
    The Ladies of the Corridor
    Dorothy Parker, Arnaud d'Usseau
    9780143105312
    $17.00 US
    Paperback
    Apr 29, 2008
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    The Portable Dorothy Parker
    The Portable Dorothy Parker
    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
    Dorothy Parker, Seth
    9780143039532
    $26.00 US
    Paperback
    Mar 28, 2006
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB
    Complete Stories
    Complete Stories
    Dorothy Parker
    9780142437216
    $20.00 US
    Paperback
    Dec 31, 2002
    Penguin Classics
    Grades 9-12 + AP/IB

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