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Parker, Dorothy (1893–1967)

US writer and wit. She was a leading member of the literary circle known as the Algonquin Round Table. She reviewed for the magazines Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, and wrote wittily ironic verses, collected in several volumes including Enough Rope (1927), and Not So Deep as a Well (1936). Her short stories include the collections ‘Laments for Living’ (1930), and ‘Here Lies’ (1939). She also wrote screenplays in Hollywood, having moved there from New York City along with other members of her circle.



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The Algonquin became famous in the 1920s as the meeting place of The Vicious Circle--or Algonquin Round Table--comprising literary worthies such as Dorothy Parker, Alexander Woollcott and Heywood Broun.
During that decade Dorothy Parker is fired by Vanity Fair as its drama critic and her marriage to a drunk and morphine addict is not a happy one.
As evidence, take a look at "Daria," a teen-oriented cartoon about a young, suburban Dorothy Parker in combat boots.
 
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