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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

The Portable Dorothy Parker [2006 Deluxe Edition] (2006) — Forfatter — 1,466 eksemplarer
Complete Stories (1995) 1,038 eksemplarer
The Portable Dorothy Parker (1944) 509 eksemplarer
The Best of Dorothy Parker (1965) 378 eksemplarer
Complete Poems (1999) 317 eksemplarer
The Collected Dorothy Parker (2001) 268 eksemplarer
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Big Blonde and Other Stories (1995) 191 eksemplarer
Laments for the Living (1930) 144 eksemplarer
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Efter sådanne glæder (1933) 118 eksemplarer
Sunset Gun (1928) 114 eksemplarer
Not So Deep As A Well (1937) 102 eksemplarer
Death and taxes (1931) 86 eksemplarer
The Custard Heart (2018) 74 eksemplarer
Constant Reader (1656) 61 eksemplarer
The Indispensable F. Scott Fitzgerald (1945) — Komponist — 60 eksemplarer
A Star Is Born [1937 film] (1937) — Screenwriter — 59 eksemplarer
The Ladies of the Corridor (1954) 53 eksemplarer
Candide: A Comic Operetta (1956) — Lyricist — 51 eksemplarer
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The Uncollected Dorothy Parker (1999) 40 eksemplarer
La Soledad de Las Parejas (1989) 35 eksemplarer
Dorothy Parker: In Her Own Words (2004) 33 eksemplarer
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La vie à deux (1983) 24 eksemplarer
Il mio mondo è qui (1939) 18 eksemplarer
Uomini che non ho sposato (2016) — Bidragyder — 15 eksemplarer
Big Blonde: New York Stories (1944) 15 eksemplarer
Je was geweldig (1983) 13 eksemplarer
Comme une valse (1989) 12 eksemplarer
Dusk Before Fireworks (1996) 11 eksemplarer
Tanto vale vivere (1993) 11 eksemplarer
Parker: Selected Stories (2018) 9 eksemplarer
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Here We Are, A Telephone Call (1998) 7 eksemplarer
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Eccoci qui (2013) 4 eksemplarer
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Story {poem} 1 eksemplar
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Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink (2007) — Bidragyder — 535 eksemplarer
Most of the Most of S. J. Perelman (1958) — Forord, nogle udgaver513 eksemplarer
Fifty Great American Short Stories (1965) — Bidragyder — 430 eksemplarer
Points of View: Revised Edition (1966) — Bidragyder — 411 eksemplarer
Wonderful Town: New York Stories from The New Yorker (2000) — Bidragyder — 354 eksemplarer
Literature: The Human Experience (2006) — Bidragyder — 338 eksemplarer
Drinking, Smoking and Screwing: Great Writers on Good Times (1994) — Bidragyder — 334 eksemplarer
75 Short Masterpieces: Stories from the World's Literature (1961) — Bidragyder — 296 eksemplarer
A Treasury of Short Stories (1947) — Bidragyder — 291 eksemplarer
Men at War: The Best War Stories of All Time (1942) — Bidragyder — 286 eksemplarer
24 Favorite One Act Plays (1958) — Bidragyder — 283 eksemplarer
A Subtreasury of American Humor (1941) — Bidragyder — 276 eksemplarer
The Treasury of American Short Stories (1981) — Bidragyder — 267 eksemplarer
Short Stories from The New Yorker, 1925 to 1940 (1940) — Bidragyder — 201 eksemplarer
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Erotica: Women's Writing from Sappho to Margaret Atwood (1990) — Bidragyder — 168 eksemplarer
Twenty Grand Short Stories (1967) — Bidragyder — 157 eksemplarer
The Pocket Book of Modern American Short Stories (1943) — Bidragyder — 145 eksemplarer
The Norton Book of Personal Essays (1997) — Bidragyder — 142 eksemplarer
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An Anthology of Famous American Stories (1953) — Bidragyder — 137 eksemplarer
American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (2003) — Bidragyder — 134 eksemplarer
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The Persephone Book of Short Stories (2012) — Bidragyder — 119 eksemplarer
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Saboteur [1942 film] (1942) — Screenwriter — 98 eksemplarer
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Eighteen Stories (1965) 4 eksemplarer
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Husbands and Lovers (1949) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
Bedside Bedlam (Quick Reader 137) (1945) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
The College Short Story Reader (1948) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
Strange Barriers (1955) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
The Avon Annual: 18 Great Story of Today (1944) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
The Best of American Poetry [Audio] (1997) — Bidragyder — 1 eksemplar
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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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