Dorothy Parker (1) (1893–1967)
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Poet and short story writer Dorothy Parker was born in New Jersey on August 22, 1893. When she was 5, her mother died and her father, a clothes salesman, remarried. Parker had a great antipathy toward her stepmother and refused to speak to her. She attended parochial school and Miss Dana's school vis mere in Morristown, New Jersey, for a brief time before dropping out at age 14. A voracious reader, she decided to pursue a career in literature. She began her career by writing verse as well as captions for a fashion magazine. During the years of her greatest fame, Dorothy Parker was known primarily as a writer of light verse, an essential member of the Algonquin Round Table, and a caustic and witty critic of literature and society. She is remembered now as an almost legendary figure of the 1920s and 1930s. Her reviews and staff contributions to three of the most sophisticated magazines of this century, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, and Esquire, were notable for their put-downs. For all her highbrow wit, however, Dorothy Parker was liberal, even radical, in her political views, and the hard veneer of brittle toughness that she showed to the world was often a shield for frustrated idealism and soft sensibilities. The best of her fiction is marked by a balance of ironic detachment and sympathetic compassion, as in "Big Blonde," which won the O. Henry Award for 1929 and is still her best-remembered and most frequently anthologized story. The best of Dorothy Parker is readily and compactly accessible in The Portable Dorothy Parker. Her own selection of stories and verse for the original edition of that compilation, published in 1944, remains intact in the revised edition, but included also are additional stories, reviews, and articles. Parker died of a heart attack at the age of 73 in 1967. In her will, she bequeathed her estate to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. foundation. Following King's death, her estate was passed on to the NAACP. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
Værker af Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker : Selected Stories (Big Blonde, Too Bad, Song of Shirt, Mr. Durant, Diary of a New York Lady, Standard… (1995) 15 eksemplarer
Alpine Giggle Week: How Dorothy Parker Set Out to Write the Great American Novel and Ended Up in a TB Colony Atop an… (2014) 9 eksemplarer
Essential Parker CD: Includes Big Blonde; Mrs. Post Enlarges on Etiquette; Horsie (2006) 7 eksemplarer
Here We Are 5 eksemplarer
The Standard of Living 4 eksemplarer
Spreekt u maar 3 eksemplarer
The Indispensable Dorothy Parker 3 eksemplarer
New York To Detroit 2 eksemplarer
You Were Perfectly Fine 2 eksemplarer
Soldiers of the Republic 2 eksemplarer
Arrangement in Black and White 2 eksemplarer
The Algonquin Wits: A Crackling Collection of Bon Mots, Wisecracks, Epigrams and Gags (1968) 2 eksemplarer
The Last Tea 2 eksemplarer
Clothe the Naked 2 eksemplarer
Little Curtis 2 eksemplarer
Glory in the Daytime 2 eksemplarer
“De Profundis” 1 eksemplar
“General Review of the Sex Situation” 1 eksemplar
“Resumee” 1 eksemplar
Mrs. Hofstadter on Josephine Street 1 eksemplar
Song of the Shirt, 1941 1 eksemplar
From the Diary of a New York Lady 1 eksemplar
Big Loira 1 eksemplar
Too Bad 1 eksemplar
Dikter 1 eksemplar
Enough Rope Poem 1 eksemplar
Enough Rope - A Book of Light Verse by Dorothy Parker;With the Introductory Essay 'The Jazz Age Literature of the Lost… (2022) 1 eksemplar
The Wonderful Old Gentleman 1 eksemplar
The Waltz 1 eksemplar
Mr. Durant 1 eksemplar
The Lovely Leave 1 eksemplar
Trade Winds [1938 film] — Screenwriter — 1 eksemplar
Suzy [1936 film] — Screenwriter — 1 eksemplar
One Perfect Rose [poem] 1 eksemplar
Parker, Dorothy Archive 1 eksemplar
Lady With A Lamp 1 eksemplar
The Sayings of Dorothy Parker (Duckworth Sayings Series) by Dorothy Parker (1995-04-06) (1726) 1 eksemplar
Parker Dorothy 1 eksemplar
Collected Poetry Of Dorothy Parker, The 1 eksemplar
But the One on the Right 1 eksemplar
Międzymiastowa Nowy Jork - Detroit (Wybór) 1 eksemplar
The Bolt Behind the Blue 1 eksemplar
Lolita 1 eksemplar
I Live on Your Visits 1 eksemplar
Sentiment 1 eksemplar
Comment [poem] 1 eksemplar
Bohemia [poem] 1 eksemplar
Cousin Larry 1 eksemplar
Story {poem} 1 eksemplar
Horsie 1 eksemplar
Una imagen perfecta 1 eksemplar
The Little Hours 1 eksemplar
The Garter (Short Stories) 1 eksemplar
Just a Little One 1 eksemplar
The Modern library of the world's best books 1 eksemplar
Guinevere at Her Fireside" 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 915 eksemplarer
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Bidragyder — 706 eksemplarer
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume One: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker (2000) — Bidragyder — 436 eksemplarer
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Bidragyder — 244 eksemplarer
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Bidragyder — 183 eksemplarer
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Bidragyder — 148 eksemplarer
The Vicious Circle: Mystery and Crime Stories by Members of the Algonquin Round Table (2007) — Bidragyder — 87 eksemplarer
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Bidragyder — 81 eksemplarer
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 3: Intelligent Family Living (1967) — Bidragyder — 33 eksemplarer
Korter dan kort de beste kortste verhalen uit de wereldliteratuur (1993) — Bidragyder — 28 eksemplarer
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Bidragyder — 13 eksemplarer
American Short Stories, Vol.5, The Twentieth Century (1957) — Forfatter, nogle udgaver — 11 eksemplarer
Great American Short Stories: O. Henry Memorial Prize Winning Stories, 1919-1934 (1935) — Bidragyder — 10 eksemplarer
The Best Short Stories of 1931 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1931) — Bidragyder — 7 eksemplarer
Our lives : American labor stories — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970, Volume II (1970) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
The Best from Cosmopolitan — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
Wives and Lovers — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
The Best Short Stories of 1928 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1928) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Celebration: 60 Years of Good Reading from 60 Authors Chosen by the Literary Guild (1987) 2 eksemplarer
Schöne Ferien — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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Almen Viden
- Kanonisk navn
- Parker, Dorothy
- Juridisk navn
- Rothschild, Dorothy (birth name)
- Andre navne
- Dot
Dottie - Fødselsdato
- 1893-08-22
- Dødsdag
- 1967-06-07
- Begravelsessted
- NAACP Headquarters, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
- Dødssted
- New York, New York, USA
- Dødsårsag
- heart attack
- Bopæl
- Morristown, New Jersey, USA
Hollywood, California, USA
New York, New York, USA - Uddannelse
- convent
- Erhverv
- journalist
writer
satirist
drama critic
screenwriter
poet (vis alle 8)
short story writer
columnist - Relationer
- Rothschild, Martin (uncle)
Campbell, Alan (husband)
Hellman, Lillian (friend, executor) - Organisationer
- Algonquin Round Table
Vogue
Vanity Fair
The New Yorker
Paramount Pictures - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1959)
O. Henry Award (1929)
New Jersey Hall of Fame (2014) - Kort biografi
- Dorothy Parker, née Rothschild, was born in the West End section of Long Branch, New Jersey, to J. Henry and Elizabeth Rothschild. Her mother died when she was four years old. She attended a Catholic grammar school and a finishing school in Morristown, NJ, and her formal education ended when she was 14.
In 1914, she sold her first poem to Vanity Fair. At age 22, she took an editorial job at Vogue, and continued to write poems for newspapers and magazines. In 1917, she joined Vanity Fair. That same year, she married Edwin P. Parker, a stockbroker, but they divorced in 1928.
S In 1919, she became a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table, the informal gathering of writers who lunched at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City. In 1922, Parker published her first short story and over the years, she contributed poetry, fiction and book reviews as the "Constant Reader" columnist.
In 1934, Parker married actor-writer Alan Campbell and the couple relocated to Los Angeles. They divorced in 1947, and remarried in 1950, but their relationship deteriorated.
She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1959 and was a visiting professor at California State College in Los Angeles in 1963. She returned to Manhattan and lived in the Volney Hotel on the Upper East Side for the last 15 years of her life.
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