Dorothy Parker

{{short description|American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist (1893–1967)}}

{{Infobox writer

| name = Dorothy Parker

| image = Young Dorothy Parker.jpg

| caption = Parker, {{circa|1910s-1920s}}

| birth_name = Dorothy Rothschild

| birth_date = {{birth date|1893|8|22|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Long Branch, New Jersey, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|mf=yes|1967|6|7|1893|8|22}}

| death_place = New York City, U.S.

| resting_place = Woodlawn Cemetery

| occupation = {{flatlist|

Author
poet
critic
screenwriter

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| genre = Poetry, satire, short stories, criticism, essays

| movement = American modernism

| notableworks = Enough Rope, Sunset Gun, A Star Is Born

| spouses = {{plainlist|

{{marriage|Edwin Pond Parker II|1917|1928|end=divorced}}
{{marriage|Alan Campbell|1934|1947|end=divorced}}
{{marriage||1950|1963|end=died}}

}}

| awards = {{awards|O. Henry Award|1929}}

| website =

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Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and writer of fiction, plays and screenplays based in New York; she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.

Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary works published in magazines, such as The New Yorker, and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. In the early 1930s, Parker traveled to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting. Her successes there, including two Academy Award nominations, were curtailed when her involvement in left-wing politics resulted in her being placed on the Hollywood blacklist.

Dismissive of her own talents, she deplored her reputation as a "wisecracker".{{cite book |editor-last=Gourevitch |editor-first=Philip |title=The Paris Review Interviews, I |location=New York |publisher=Picador Press |year=2006 |chapter=Dorothy Parker (1956) |page=9 |isbn=978-0312361754}} In this interview, Parker said she was also disparagingly referred to as a "smartcracker" in the 1920s. Nevertheless, both her literary output and reputation for sharp wit have endured. Some of her works have been set to music.

Early life and education

Also known as Dot or Dottie,{{Cite book |last=Hellman |first=Lillian |title=Pentimento |year=1973 |publisher=Quartet Books |publication-date=1976 |isbn=0 7043 3105 5 |location=London |pages=103–105 |language=English}} Parker was born Dorothy Rothschild in 1893 to Jacob Henry Rothschild and his wife Eliza Annie (née Marston){{sfn|Meade|1987}} (1851–1898) at 732 Ocean Avenue in Long Branch, New Jersey.{{cite news |url=http://dorothyparker.com/gallery/new-york-times-obituary |title=Dorothy Parker, 73, Literary Wit, Dies |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 8, 1967 |first=Alden |last=Whitman}} Parker wrote in her essay "My Home Town" that her parents returned from their summer beach cottage there to their Manhattan apartment shortly after Labor Day (September 4) so that she could be called a true New Yorker.

Parker's mother was of Scottish descent. Her father was the son of Sampson Jacob Rothschild (1818–1899) and Mary Greissman (b. 1824), both Prussian-born Jews. Sampson Jacob Rothschild was a merchant who immigrated to the United States around 1846, settling in Monroe County, Alabama. Dorothy's father was one of five known siblings: Simon (1854–1908); Samuel (b. 1857); Hannah (1860–1911), later Mrs. William Henry Theobald; and Martin, born in Manhattan on December 12, 1865, who perished in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/titanic-victim/martin-rothschild.html|title=Martin Rothschild : Titanic Victim|website=Encyclopedia Titanica}}

Her mother died in Manhattan in July 1898, a month before Parker's fifth birthday.{{sfn|Meade|1987|p=12}} Her father remarried in 1900 to Eleanor Frances Lewis (1851–1903), a Protestant.{{sfn|Meade|1987|p=13}}

Author Dorothy Herrmann claimed that Parker hated her father, who allegedly physically abused her, and her stepmother, whom she refused to call "mother", "stepmother", or "Eleanor", instead referring to her as "the housekeeper".{{cite book |last=Herrmann |first=Dorothy |title=With Malice Toward All: The Quips, Lives and Loves of Some Celebrated 20th-Century American Wits |publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons |year=1982 |location=New York |page=78 |isbn=0-399-12710-0}} However, her biographer Marion Meade refers to this account as "largely false", stating that the atmosphere in which Parker grew up was indulgent, affectionate, supportive and generous.{{sfn|Meade|1987}}

Parker was raised on the Upper West Side and attended a Roman Catholic elementary school at the Convent of the Blessed Sacrament on West 79th Street with her sister, Helen,{{sfn|Meade|1987}} and classmate Mercedes de Acosta. Parker once joked that she was asked to leave following her characterization of the Immaculate Conception as "spontaneous combustion".{{Cite book |last=Chambers |first=Dianne |contribution=Parker, Dorothy |year=1995 |title=The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing in the United States | editor-last = Wagner-Martin | editor-first = Linda |publisher=Oxford University Press | contribution-url = http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t196.e0604}}

Her stepmother died in 1903, when Parker was nine.{{sfn|Meade|1987|p=16}} Parker later attended Miss Dana's School, a finishing school in Morristown, New Jersey.{{sfn|Meade|1987|p=27}} She graduated in 1911, at the age of 18, according to Kinney, just before the school closed,{{cite book |last=Kinney |first=Arthur F. |title=Dorothy Parker |url=https://archive.org/details/dorothyparker0000kinn |url-access=registration |publisher=Twayne Publishers |year=1978 |location=Boston |pages=[https://archive.org/details/dorothyparker0000kinn/page/26 26–27]|isbn=978-0-8057-7241-8 }} although Rhonda Pettit{{Cite web|url=http://www.english.illinois.edu/MAPS/poets/m_r/parker/bio.htm|title=Modern American Poetry|access-date=May 6, 2019|archive-date=March 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190327021024/http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/parker/bio.htm|url-status=dead}} and Marion Meade{{sfn|Meade|1987}} state she never graduated from high school. Following her father's death in 1913, she played piano at a dancing school to earn a living{{cite book |last=Silverstein |first=Stuart Y. |title=Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker |publisher=Scribner |year=1996 |location=New York |page=[https://archive.org/details/notmuchfunlostpo0000park/page/13 13] |isbn=0-7432-1148-0 |url=https://archive.org/details/notmuchfunlostpo0000park/page/13 }} while she worked on her poetry.

She sold her first poem to Vanity Fair magazine in 1914 and some months later was hired as an editorial assistant for Vogue, another Condé Nast magazine. She moved to Vanity Fair as a staff writer after two years at Vogue.{{sfn|Silverstein|1996|p=13}}

In 1917, she met a Wall Street stockbroker, Edwin Pond Parker II{{sfn|Herrmann|1982|p=78}}

(1893–1933){{cite news |title=Edwin P. Parker 2d |newspaper=The New York Times |agency=Associated Press |date=January 8, 1933 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1933/01/08/archives/edwin-p-parker-2d.html |access-date=February 28, 2013}} and they married before he left to serve in World War I with the U.S. Army 4th Division.{{Cite news | title=Disagreement on cause of man's death | url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=20026728 | via=Newspapers.com | newspaper=Hartford Courant | location=Hartford, Connecticut | date=January 8, 1933 | page=6}}

Algonquin Round Table years

File:Algonquin Round Table.gif members and guests (l–r) Art Samuels (editor of Harper's and, briefly, The New Yorker), Charles MacArthur, Harpo Marx, and Alexander Woollcott, c. 1919]]

Parker's career took off in 1918 while she was writing theater criticism for Vanity Fair, filling in for the vacationing P. G. Wodehouse.{{sfn|Silverstein|1996|p=18}} At the magazine, she met Robert Benchley, who became a close friend, and Robert E. Sherwood.{{cite book |last=Altman |first=Billy |title=Laughter's Gentle Soul: The Life of Robert Benchley |publisher=W. W. Norton |year=1997 |location=New York |page=[https://archive.org/details/laughtersgentles00altm/page/146 146] |isbn=0-393-03833-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/laughtersgentles00altm/page/146}} The trio lunched at the Algonquin Hotel almost daily. They were founding members of what became known as the Algonquin Round Table. Among its members were newspaper columnists Franklin P. Adams and Alexander Woollcott, as well as the editor Harold Ross, the novelist Edna Ferber, the reporter Heywood Broun, and the comedian Harpo Marx.{{Cite web | last=Goldman | first=Jonathan | title=When Dorothy Parker got fired from Vanity Fair | url=https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/when-dorothy-parker-got-fired-from-vanity-fair/ | website=The Public Domain Review | date=February 6, 2020 | access-date=August 16, 2023}} Through their publication of her lunchtime remarks and short verses, particularly in Adams' column "The Conning Tower", Parker began developing a national reputation as a wit.{{harvnb|Meade|1987|p=45}}. "If the beginning of Dorothy's reputation as a wit can be pinpointed, it would be that spring [of 1918], for it was then, when she was twenty-four, that she began to attract the attention of an audience broader and more sophisticated than the readership of a fashion magazine."

Even though many found Parker's caustic theater reviews very entertaining, she was dismissed by Vanity Fair on January 11, 1920, after her criticisms had too often offended the playwright–producer David Belasco, the actress Billie Burke, the impresario Florenz Ziegfeld, and others. Benchley resigned in protest. (Sherwood is sometimes reported to have done so too, but in fact had been fired in December 1919.{{sfn|Meade|1987|p=68}}) Parker soon started working for Ainslee's Magazine, which had a higher circulation. Her poems and short stories were published widely, "not only in upscale places like Vanity Fair (which was happier to publish her than employ her), The Smart Set, and The American Mercury, but also in the popular Ladies' Home Journal, Saturday Evening Post, and Life".{{cite news |last1=Gottlieb |first1=Robert |url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/04/07/brilliant-troubled-dorothy-parker/ |access-date=August 23, 2018 |title=Brilliant, Troubled Dorothy Parker |work=New York Review of Books |date=April 7, 2016}}

When Harold Ross founded The New Yorker in 1925, Parker and Benchley were part of a board of editors he established to allay the concerns of his investors. Parker's first piece for the magazine was published in its second issue.{{sfn|Silverstein|1996|p=32}} She became famous for her short, viciously humorous poems, many highlighting ludicrous aspects of her numerous and largely unsuccessful romantic affairs, and others wistfully considering the appeal of suicide.{{citation needed|date=August 2022}}

The next 15 years were Parker's period of greatest productivity and success. In the 1920s alone she published some 300 poems and free verses in Vanity Fair, Vogue, "The Conning Tower" column, and The New Yorker as well as in Life, McCall's and The New Republic.{{sfn|Silverstein|1996|p=62–3}} Her poem "Song in a Minor Key" was published during a candid interview with New York N.E.A. writer Josephine van der Grift.{{cite news |last=van der Grift |first=Josephine |date=November 5, 1922 |title=Dorothy Parker says it's not all fun to be funny. |newspaper=The Salina Daily Union |page=18}}

File:Enough Rope by Dorothy Parker.jpg

Parker published her first volume of poetry, Enough Rope, in 1926. It sold 47,000 copies{{sfn|Silverstein|1996|p=35}} and garnered impressive reviews. The Nation described her verse as "caked with a salty humor, rough with splinters of disillusion, and tarred with a bright black authenticity".{{sfn|Meade|1987|p=177}} Enough Rope included her two-line poem "News Item"{{Snd}}"Men seldom make passes / At girls who wear glasses"{{Snd}}that would remain among her most remembered epigrams.{{harvnb|Meade|1987|p=170.}} "Those nine words seemed quite innocuous to her at the time. Later, to her utter amazement, it would be 'News Item' that people remembered while they forgot or ignored or never knew any of her other work". She amused readers with poems that had a surprise or trick ending, akin to an O. Henry short story,{{cite magazine |last=North |first=Sterling |title=Review: More than Enough Rope |magazine=Poetry |volume=33 |number=3 |date=December 1928 |pages=156–158 |jstor=20576802 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20576802}} such as:

{{poemquote||title=Unfortunate Coincidence|text=By the time you swear you're his,

Shivering and sighing,

And he vows his passion is

Infinite, undying—

Lady, make a note of this:

One of you is lying.{{cite web |last=Parker |first=Dorothy |title=Unfortunate Coincidence |website=Poets.org |url=https://poets.org/poem/unfortunate-coincidence |publisher=Academy of American Poets |year=1926}}}}

{{poemquote|title=Résumé|text=Razors pain you;

Rivers are damp;

Acids stain you;

And drugs cause cramp.

Guns aren't lawful;

Nooses give;

Gas smells awful;

You might as well live.{{cite web |last=Parker |first=Dorothy |title=Résumé |website=Poets.org |url=https://poets.org/poem/resume |publisher=Academy of American Poets |year=1926}}}}

Although some critics, notably The New York Times{{`}} reviewer, dismissed her work as "flapper verse",{{sfn|Meade|1987|p=178}} the book helped Parker's reputation for sparkling wit.{{sfn|Silverstein|1996|p=35}} She released two more volumes of verse, Sunset Gun (1928) and Death and Taxes (1931), along with the short story collections Laments for the Living (1930) and After Such Pleasures (1933). Not So Deep as a Well (1936) collected much of the material previously published in Rope, Gun, and Death; and she re-released her fiction with a few new pieces in 1939 as Here Lies.

Parker collaborated with playwright Elmer Rice to create Close Harmony, which ran on Broadway in December 1924. The play was well received in out-of-town previews and favorably reviewed in New York, but it closed after only 24 performances. As The Lady Next Door, it became a successful touring production.{{sfn|Meade|1987|p=138}}

Some of Parker's most celebrated work was published in The New Yorker in the form of acerbic book reviews under the byline "Constant Reader". Her response to the whimsy of A. A. Milne's The House at Pooh Corner was "Tonstant Weader fwowed up."{{cite book |last=Parker |first=Dorothy |editor-last=Gill |editor-first=Brendan |chapter=Far From Well |title=The Portable Dorothy Parker: Revised and Enlarged Edition |publisher=Penguin Books |year=1976 |location=New York |page=518 |isbn=0140150749 |series=The Viking Portable Library}} Her reviews appeared semi-regularly from 1927 to 1933,{{sfn|Silverstein|1996|p=38}} and were deemed "immensely popular".{{cite magazine |date=May 5, 2010 |title=Eighty-Five from the Archive: Dorothy Parker |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/eighty-five-from-the-archive-dorothy-parker |url-access=limited |last=Overbey |first=Erin |magazine=The New Yorker}} They were posthumously published in 1970 in a collection titled Constant Reader, and then anthologized again in 2024.{{cite magazine |last=Crosley |first=Sloane |title=Dorothy Parker and the Art of the Literary Takedown |url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/second-read/dorothy-parker-and-the-art-of-the-literary-takedown |url-access=limited |magazine=The New Yorker |date=November 1, 2024}}{{cite news |last=Athitakis |first=Mark |title=The heartbreak behind Dorothy Parker's wit |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2024/10/31/dorothy-parker-books-review/ |date=October 31, 2024 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}

Her best-known short story, "Big Blonde", published in The Bookman, was awarded the O. Henry Award as the best short story of 1929.{{sfn|Herrmann|1982|p=74}} Her short stories, though often witty, were also spare and incisive, and more bittersweet than comic;{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}} her poetry has been described as sardonic.{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/columbiacompanio00blan | first=Wendy | last=Martin | chapter=Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) | title=The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story |date=2000 |publisher=Columbia University Press | editor-last=Gelfant | editor-first=Blanche H. | pages=447–452 | isbn=978-0-231-11098-3 |location=New York |oclc=51443994}}

Parker eventually separated from her husband Edwin Parker, divorcing in 1928. She had a number of affairs, her lovers including reporter-turned-playwright Charles MacArthur and the publisher Seward Collins. Her relationship with MacArthur resulted in a pregnancy. Parker is alleged to have said, "how like me, to put all my eggs into one bastard".{{sfn|Meade|1987|p=105}} She had an abortion, and fell into a depression that culminated in her first attempt at suicide.{{sfn|Silverstein|1996|p=29}}

Toward the end of this period, Parker became more politically aware and active. What would turn into a lifelong commitment to activism began in 1927, when she grew concerned about the pending executions of Sacco and Vanzetti. Parker traveled to Boston to protest the proceedings. She and fellow Round Tabler Ruth Hale were arrested, and Parker eventually pleaded guilty to a charge of "loitering and sauntering", paying a $5 fine.{{sfn|Silverstein|1996|p=44}}

Hollywood

In February 1932, over a breakup with boyfriend John McClain, Parker attempted suicide by swallowing barbiturates.{{cite web |last1=Fitzpatrick |first1=Kevin |title=Writer's Block Breaks at The Lowell |url=https://dorothyparker.com/dorothy-parker-homes/writers-block-breaks-at-the-lowell |website=Dorothy Parker Society |access-date=26 November 2024}}{{cite web |last1=Fitzpatrick |first1=Kevin |title=The Sun Shines on Dorothy Parker |url=https://dorothyparker.com/dorothy-parker-haunts/the-sun-shines-on-dorothy-parker |website=Dorothy Parker Society |access-date=26 November 2024}}{{cite web |title=Waltzing out of The Lowell: Dorothy Parker's Sojourn in an East Side Hotel |url=https://amlit.commons.gc.cuny.edu/archives/1204 |website=New York State of Mind: Mapping New York Literary History |access-date=26 November 2024 |language=en |date=19 July 2016}}{{cite web |title=Dorothy Parker in West Hollywood |url=https://www.nickharvilllibraries.com/blog/dorothy-parker-and-alan-campbell-in-west-hollywood |website=Nick Harvill Libraries |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210929023851/https://www.nickharvilllibraries.com/blog/dorothy-parker-and-alan-campbell-in-west-hollywood |archive-date=September 29, 2021 |language=en |quote=Dorothy Parker, Flanked by John McClain and Roger Davis}}

In 1932, she met Alan Campbell,{{sfn|Meade|1987|p=238}} an actor hoping to become a screenwriter. They married two years later in Raton, New Mexico. Campbell's mixed parentage was the reverse of Parker's: he had a German-Jewish mother and a Scottish father. She learned that he was bisexual and subsequently proclaimed in public that he was "queer as a billy goat".{{cite book |last=Wallace |first=David |title=Capital of the World: A Portrait of New York City in the Roaring Twenties |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ivN7BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA184 |date=September 4, 2012 |publisher=Lyons Press |isbn=978-0-7627-6819-6 |pages=184–}} The pair moved to Hollywood and signed ten-week contracts with Paramount Pictures, with Campbell (also expected to act) earning $250 per week and Parker earning $1,000 per week. They would eventually earn $2,000 and sometimes more than $5,000 per week as freelancers for various studios.{{sfn|Silverstein|1996|p=40}} She and Campbell "[received] writing credit for over 15 films between 1934 and 1941".{{Cite web | title=Alan Campbell and Dorothy Parker Collection, [1930]–1949 (majority within 1938–1946) | url=https://findingaids.lib.umich.edu/catalog/umich-scl-campbellparker | website=University of Michigan | access-date=August 15, 2023}}

In 1933, when informed that famously taciturn former president Calvin Coolidge had died, Parker remarked, "How could they tell?"{{Cite book |last=Greenberg |first=David |url=https://archive.org/details/calvincoolidge00gree/page/9 |title=Calvin Coolidge |date=2006 |publisher=Times Books |isbn=978-0-8050-6957-0 |series=The American Presidents Series |page=[https://archive.org/details/calvincoolidge00gree/page/9 9] |access-date=March 19, 2015}}

In 1935, Parker contributed lyrics for the song "I Wished on the Moon", with music by Ralph Rainger. The song was introduced in The Big Broadcast of 1936 by Bing Crosby.{{cite book |title=The great Hollywood musical pictures |last1=Parish |first1=J.R. |last2=Pitts |first2=M.R. |isbn=978-0-8108-2529-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bnFZAAAAMAAJ |date=1992 |publisher=Scarecrow Press}}

With Campbell and Robert Carson, she wrote the script for the 1937 film A Star Is Born, for which they were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Writing—Screenplay. She wrote additional dialogue for The Little Foxes in 1941. Together with Frank Cavett, she received a "Writing (Motion Picture Story)" Oscar nomination for Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947),{{Cite web|url=https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1948| title=1948 | publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences|website=Oscars | date=5 October 2014 | access-date=September 1, 2023}} starring Susan Hayward.

After the U.S. entered the Second World War, Parker and Alexander Woollcott collaborated to produce an anthology of her work as part of a series published by Viking Press for servicemen overseas. With an introduction by W. Somerset Maugham,{{sfn|Meade|1987|p=318}} The Portable Dorothy Parker (1944) compiled over two dozen of her short stories, along with selected poems from Enough Rope, Sunset Gun, and Death and Taxes. In 1976, when a revised and enlarged edition of the book was released, the "Publishers' Note" stated that of the 75 volumes in the Viking Portable Library series, Dorothy Parker was one of three—along with Shakespeare and The World Bible—that "have remained continuously in print and selling steadily through time and change."{{sfn|Parker|1976|p=v}}

During the 1930s and 1940s, Parker became an increasingly vocal advocate of civil liberties and civil rights and a frequent critic of authority figures. During the Great Depression, she was among numerous American intellectuals and artists who became involved in related social movements. She reported in 1937 on the Loyalist cause in Spain for the Communist magazine New Masses.{{sfn|Meade|1987|p=285}} At the behest of Otto Katz, a covert Soviet Comintern agent and operative of German Communist Party agent Willi Münzenberg, Parker helped to found the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League in 1936, which the FBI suspected of being a Communist Party front.{{Cite book |last=Koch |first=Stephen |title=Double lives: Stalin, Willi Münzenberg and the seduction of the intellectuals |date=2004 |publisher=Enigma |isbn=978-1-929631-20-9 |edition=Rev. and updated |location=New York, N.Y}} The League's membership eventually grew to around 4,000. According to David Caute, its often wealthy members were "able to contribute as much to [Communist] Party funds as the whole American working class", although they may not have been intending to support the Party cause.{{Cite book |last=Caute |first=David |title=The fellow travellers: intellectual friends of communism |date=1988 |publisher=Yale Univ. Pr |isbn=978-0-300-04195-8 |edition=2., rev. |location=New Haven}}

Parker also chaired the Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee's fundraising arm, "Spanish Refugee Appeal". She organized Project Rescue Ship to transport Loyalist veterans to Mexico, headed Spanish Children's Relief, and lent her name to many other left-wing causes and organizations.{{cite book |last=Buhle |first=Paul |author2=Dave Wagner |title=Radical Hollywood: The Untold Story Behind America's Favorite Movies |publisher=The New Press |year=2002 |location=New York |page=89 |isbn=1-56584-718-0}} Her former Round Table friends saw less and less of her, and her relationship with Robert Benchley became particularly strained (although they would reconcile).{{sfn|Altman|1997|p=314}} Parker met S. J. Perelman at a party in 1932 and, despite a rocky start (Perelman called it "a scarifying ordeal"),{{sfn|Perelman|1981|p=171}} they remained friends for the next 35 years. They became neighbors when the Perelmans helped Parker and Campbell buy a run-down farm in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, near New Hope, a popular summer destination among many writers and artists from New York.{{cite magazine |title=A Guide to Exploring The Brilliance of Bucks County |last=LeGrand |first=Marty |date=July 2024 |url=https://www.baltimoremagazine.com/section/artsentertainment/bucks-county-pennsylvania-travel-guide-doylestown-new-hope-michener-museum/ |magazine=Baltimore}}

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Parker applied for a passport with plans to become a foreign correspondent, but her application was denied for political reasons. The FBI had compiled a 1,000-page dossier on her, detailing her involvement in leftist activities, which doomed her post-war screenwriting career. It was the time of the Second Red Scare when Senator Joseph McCarthy was raising alarms about communists in government and Hollywood.{{cite book |last=Kunkel |first=Thomas |title=Genius in Disguise: Harold Ross of The New Yorker |publisher=Carrol & Graf |year=1996 |page=[https://archive.org/details/geniusindisguise00kunk/page/405 405] |isbn=0-7867-0323-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/geniusindisguise00kunk/page/405}} In 1950, she was identified as a Communist by the anti-Communist publication Red Channels.{{cite book |chapter=Dorothy Parker: Writer, Versifier | title=Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television | location=New York | publisher=Counterattack | year=1950 | pages=115–116}} [https://www.historyonthenet.com/authentichistory/1946-1960/4-cwhomefront/1-mccarthyism/Red_Channels/Red_Channels_19500622_pg115.jpg Page 115], [https://www.historyonthenet.com/authentichistory/1946-1960/4-cwhomefront/1-mccarthyism/Red_Channels/Red_Channels_19500622_pg116.jpg page 116]; both via The Authentic History Center; retrieved August 24, 2023. As a result, movie studio bosses placed her on the Hollywood blacklist. Her final screenplay was The Fan, a 1949 adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan, directed by Otto Preminger.{{Cite book | last=Hunter | first=I.Q. |year=2013 |chapter=What Fresh Hell is This? |title=British Trash Cinema |doi=10.5040/9781838711177.ch-010|isbn=978-1-83871-117-7 |pages=164–177 | publisher=British Film Institute}}

With only a small income from her book royalties, Parker and Campbell moved into an apartment "in an unfashionable West Hollywood neighborhood."{{cite news |last=Sorel |first=Edward |title=The Literati: Mr. and Mrs. Dorothy Parker's Arrival in Hollywood |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/books/review/dorothy-parker-alan-campbell.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 7, 2018}} She collected unemployment benefits while listing herself each week as available for work. Her persistent money troubles in Hollywood contributed to her harsh assessment of the place during a 1956 interview in New York:{{blockquote|Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are. I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. 'Out there,' I called it.{{sfn|Gourevitch|2006|p=15}}}}

Her marriage to Campbell was tempestuous, with tensions exacerbated by her increasing alcohol consumption and by his long-term affair with a married woman in Europe during World War II.{{sfn|Meade|1987|p=327}} Parker and Campbell divorced in 1947,{{sfn|Meade|1987|p=329}} remarried in 1950,{{sfn|Meade|1987|p=339}} and then separated again in 1952 when she moved back to New York.{{cite magazine |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mqz2cxXtwEQC&q=%22East+74th%22&pg=PA41 |author-first=James |author-last=Malanowski |title=Dead & Famous: Where the Grim Reaper has Walked in New York |magazine=Spy |date=July 17, 1959 |access-date=April 10, 2013}} From 1957 to 1962, she wrote book reviews for Esquire.{{cite web |last=Parker |first=Dorothy |url=https://classic.esquire.com/article/1959/11/1/book-reviews |title=Book Reviews |date=November 1, 1959 |website=Esquire Classic |series=The Complete Archive |language=en-US}} Her writing became increasingly erratic owing to her continued abuse of alcohol. She returned to Hollywood in 1961, reconciled once more with Campbell, and collaborated with him on a number of unproduced projects until Campbell died from a drug overdose in 1963.{{sfn|Meade|1987|p=392–3}}

Later life and death

Following Campbell's death, Parker returned to New York City and the Volney residential hotel. In her later years, she denigrated the Algonquin Round Table, although it had brought her such early notoriety:

{{Blockquote | These were no giants. Think who was writing in those days—Lardner, Fitzgerald, Faulkner and Hemingway. Those were the real giants. The Round Table was just a lot of people telling jokes and telling each other how good they were. Just a bunch of loudmouths showing off, saving their gags for days, waiting for a chance to spring them ... There was no truth in anything they said. It was the terrible day of the wisecrack, so there didn't have to be any truth ...{{sfn|Herrmann|1982|p=85}}}}

Parker occasionally participated in radio programs, including Information Please (as a guest){{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EwtRbXNca0oC&dq=%22Information+Please+the+great%22&pg=PA341 |first=John |last=Dunning |title=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio |section=Information Please |publisher=Oxford University Press, Inc. |year=1998 |pages=341-346 |isbn=978-0-19-507678-3 |access-date=2025-02-21}} and Author, Author (as a regular panelist).{{cite encyclopedia| last=Dunning | first=John |title=Author, Author | encyclopedia=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio | publisher=Oxford University Press, USA | date=1998-05-07 | isbn=978-0-19-507678-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EwtRbXNca0oC&dq=%2522Author,+Author+quiz%2522+%2522Panelists+Dorothy+Parker%2522&pg=PA51 | page=51}} She wrote for the Columbia Workshop,{{cite encyclopedia| last=Dunning | first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fi5wPDBiGfMC&dq=%22The+Columbia+Workshop%22&pg=PA168 |title=The Columbia Workshop |pages=168-172 | encyclopedia=On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio | publisher=Oxford University Press, USA | date=1998-05-07 | isbn=978-0-19-507678-3}} and both Ilka Chase and Tallulah Bankhead used her material for radio monologues.

Parker died on June 7, 1967, of a heart attack at the age of 73. In her will, she bequeathed her estate to Martin Luther King Jr., and upon King's death, to the NAACP.{{cite news |last1=Kaplan |first1=Morris |title=Dorothy Parker's Will Leaves Estate of $10,000 to Dr. King |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/06/27/archives/dorothy-parkers-will-leaves-estate-of-10000-to-dr-king.html |access-date=18 January 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=21 June 1967}} At the time of her death, she was living at the Volney residential hotel on East 74th Street.{{Cite news | title=To fan fearing wrecking ball, the city is Dorothy Parker's: Working to prevent razing of building where writer lived while a small girl |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/21/nyregion/the-dorothy-parker-mystique-vs-an-apartment-building.html | last=Berger | first=Joseph | newspaper=The New York Times | date=October 21, 2011 | page=A28}}

= Burial =

Following her cremation, Parker's ashes were unclaimed for several years. Finally, in 1973, the crematorium sent them to her lawyer's office; by then he had retired, and the ashes remained in his colleague Paul O'Dwyer's filing cabinet for about 17 years.{{sfn|Meade|1987|p=412}}{{cite news |last1=Shapiro |first1=Laurie Gwen |title=The Improbable Journey of Dorothy Parker's Ashes |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-improbable-journey-of-dorothy-parkers-ashes |access-date=6 September 2020 |magazine=The New Yorker |date=4 September 2020}} In 1988, O'Dwyer brought this to public attention, with the aid of celebrity columnist Liz Smith; after some discussion, the NAACP claimed Parker's remains and designed a memorial garden for them outside its Baltimore headquarters.{{cite book |last=Wilson |first=Scott |title=Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More than 14,000 Famous Persons |edition=3rd |publisher= McFarland & Company}} The plaque read:

{{blockquote|Here lie the ashes of Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) humorist, writer, critic. Defender of human and civil rights. For her epitaph she suggested, 'Excuse my dust'. This memorial garden is dedicated to her noble spirit which celebrated the oneness of humankind and to the bonds of everlasting friendship between black and Jewish people. Dedicated by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. October 28, 1988.{{cite book |last=Hitchens |first=Christopher |title=Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere |publisher=Verso |year=2000 |location=New York |page=293 |isbn=1-85984-786-2}}}}

File:Dorothyparkerlandmark.jpg

In early 2020, the NAACP moved its headquarters to downtown Baltimore and how this might affect Parker's ashes became the topic of much speculation, especially after the NAACP formally announced it would later move to Washington, D.C.{{cite news |last1=Prudente |first1=Tim |title=Talks under way to move the ashes of famed New Yorker writer Dorothy Parker from her Baltimore resting place |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-dorothy-parker-grave-20200712-rirzjyfeozda7pubup3ybjbh4u-story.html |access-date=6 September 2020 |work=Baltimore Sun |date=12 July 2020}}

The NAACP restated that Parker's ashes would ultimately be where her family wished.{{cite news |title=Dorothy Parker's Ashes Could Be Moved. Again. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/19/us/dorothy-parker-ashes-baltimore.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=July 19, 2020 |access-date=10 September 2020|last1=Gross |first1=Jenny }} "It’s important to us that we do this right," said the NAACP.

Relatives called for the ashes to be moved to the family's plot in Woodlawn Cemetery, in the Bronx, where a place had been reserved for Parker by her father. On August 18, 2020, Parker's urn was exhumed.{{cite web |last1=Fitzpatrick |first1=Kevin |title=Homecoming: Dorothy Parker's ashes buried in New York City |url=https://dorothyparker.com/2020/09/homecoming.html |website=Dorothy Parker Society |access-date=7 September 2020 |date=7 September 2020}} "Two executives from the N.A.A.C.P. spoke, and a rabbi who had attended her initial burial said Kaddish." On August 22, 2020, Parker was re-buried privately in Woodlawn, with the possibility of a more public ceremony later. "Her legacy means a lot," added representatives from the NAACP.

Honors

On August 22, 1992, the 99th anniversary of Parker's birth, the United States Postal Service issued a 29¢ U.S. commemorative postage stamp in the Literary Arts series. The Algonquin Round Table, as well as the number of other literary and theatrical greats who lodged at the hotel, contributed to the Algonquin Hotel's being designated in 1987 as a New York City Historic Landmark.{{Cite news |last=Heller Anderson |first=Susan |title=City Makes It Official: Algonquin is Landmark |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 20, 1987 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/20/nyregion/city-makes-it-official-algonquin-is-landmark.html |access-date=October 21, 2007}} In 1996, the hotel was designated as a National Literary Landmark by the Friends of Libraries USA, based on the contributions of Parker and other members of the Round Table. The organization's bronze plaque is attached to the front of the hotel.{{cite web |last=Friends of Libraries USA |title=1996 dedications |url=http://www.folusa.org/outreach/landmarks-year/1996.php |access-date=September 13, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080506140823/http://www.folusa.org/outreach/landmarks-year/1996.php |archive-date=May 6, 2008 }} Parker's birthplace at the Jersey Shore was also designated a National Literary Landmark by Friends of Libraries USA in 2005{{cite web |work=New Jersey Monthly |title=The Write Stuff |date=February 7, 2008 |first=Christopher |last=Hann |url=http://njmonthly.com/articles/lifestyle/people/the-write-stuff.html}} and a bronze plaque marks the former site of her family house.{{cite web |title=Plaque Unveiled at Parker Teenage Home |url=http://dorothyparker.com/2009/08/plaque-unveiled-at-parker-teenage-home.html |website=Dorothyparker.com|date=August 24, 2009 }}

In 2014, Parker was elected to the New Jersey Hall of Fame.

In popular culture

Parker inspired a number of fictional characters in several plays of her day. These included "Lily Malone" in Philip Barry's Hotel Universe (1932), "Mary Hilliard" (played by Ruth Gordon) in George Oppenheimer's Here Today (1932), "Paula Wharton" in Gordon's 1944 play Over Twenty-one (directed by George S. Kaufman), and "Julia Glenn" in the Kaufman–Moss Hart collaboration Merrily We Roll Along (1934). Kaufman's representation of her in Merrily We Roll Along led Parker, once his Round Table compatriot, to despise him.{{sfn|Meade|1987|p=241}} She also was portrayed as "Daisy Lester" in Charles Brackett's 1934 novel Entirely Surrounded.{{sfn|Silverstein|1996|p=10–11}} She is mentioned in the original introductory lyrics in Cole Porter's song "Just One of Those Things" from the 1935 Broadway musical Jubilee, which have been retained in the standard interpretation of the song as part of the Great American Songbook.

Parker is a character in the novel The Dorothy Parker Murder Case by George Baxt (1984), in a series of Algonquin Round Table Mysteries by J. J. Murphy (2011– ), and in Ellen Meister's novel Farewell, Dorothy Parker (2013).{{cite book | last=Meister | first=Ellen | title=Farewell, Dorothy Parker | publisher=Putnam Adult | publication-place=New York | date=2013 | isbn=0-399-15907-X }} She is the main character in "Love For Miss Dottie", a short story by Larry N Mayer, which was selected by writer Mary Gaitskill for the collection Best New American Voices 2009 (Harcourt).

She has been portrayed on film and television by Dolores Sutton in F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hollywood (1976), Rosemary Murphy in Julia (1977),{{cite magazine |url=http://www.playbill.com/article/tony-nominee-and-emmy-winner-rosemary-murphy-dies-at-89-com-324377 |title=Tony Nominee and Emmy Winner Rosemary Murphy Dies at 89 |magazine=Playbill |date=July 9, 2014 |author=Simonson, Robert |author-link1=Robert Simonson}} Bebe Neuwirth in Dash and Lilly (1999), and Jennifer Jason Leigh in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994). Neuwirth was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance, and Leigh received a number of awards and nominations, including a Golden Globe nomination.

Television creator Amy Sherman-Palladino named her production company 'Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions' in tribute to Parker.{{cite book |editor=Crusie, Jennifer |year=2007 |title=Coffee at Luke's: An Unauthorized Gilmore Girls Gabfest | page=185 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZWW72Cwfj14C |place=Dallas |publisher=BenBella Books |isbn=978-1-933771-17-5 |access-date=August 19, 2023}}

Tucson actress Lesley Abrams wrote and performed the one-woman show Dorothy Parker's Last Call in 2009 in Tucson, Arizona, presented by the Winding Road Theater Ensemble.{{Cite news | title=Shaken not stirred: Winding Road's 'Dorothy Parker' is all wit, not heart | first=Nathan | last=Christensen | url=http://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/shaken-not-stirred/Content?oid=1473209 | date=October 22, 2009 | access-date=August 19, 2023}} She reprised the role at the Live Theatre Workshop in Tucson in 2014.{{Cite news | url=http://tucson.com/entertainment/blogs/caliente-tuned-in/last-call-an-energetic-reflection-of-dorothy-parker-s-life/article_bcad569e-fa8e-11e3-ad5f-0019bb2963f4.html | title='Last Call' an energetic reflection of Dorothy Parker's life | first=Ann | last=Brown | newspaper=Arizona Daily Star | date=June 30, 2014 | access-date=2023-08-26}} The play was selected to be part of the Capital Fringe Festival in DC in 2010.{{Cite web | first=Lorraine | last=Treanor | url=http://dctheatrescene.com/2010/07/11/dorothy-parkers-last-call | title=Dorothy Parker's Last Call |website=DC Theatre Scene | date=July 11, 2010 | access-date=2023-08-18}}

In 2018, American drag queen Miz Cracker played Parker in the celebrity-impersonation game show episode of the Season 10 of Rupaul's Drag Race.{{cite news |last1=Duarte |first1=Amanda |title='RuPaul's Drag Race' Season 10, Episode 7: Citizens Divided |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/arts/television/rupauls-drag-race-season-10-episode-7-recap.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220101/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/03/arts/television/rupauls-drag-race-season-10-episode-7-recap.html |archive-date=2022-01-01 |url-access=limited |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 4, 2018 |access-date=May 5, 2018}}{{cbignore}}

In the 2018 film Can You Ever Forgive Me? (based on the 2008 memoir of the same name), Melissa McCarthy plays Lee Israel, an author who for a time forged original letters in Dorothy Parker's name.

2007 Dorothy Parker copyright trial

In Silverstein v. Penguin Putnam, Inc, the plaintiff claimed copyright in certain Parker poems that had been reproduced in Penguin's Dorothy Parker: Complete Poems after appearing in Not Much Fun, a volume edited by Silverstein that had been the first collection to include these particular poems.

{{Blockquote | The Second Circuit reversed the district court’s initial award of summary judgment on the copyright claim insofar as it was based on Not Much Fun's arrangement of poems and the edits that Silverstein made and the titles he gave to some of the poems. The Second Circuit also vacated the judgment that Silverstein's selection of poems was protectible.... After a bench trial, the court held that the plaintiff’s selection of all of the poems lacked creativity and was therefore not copyrightable, ruling in favor of Penguin.{{cite web |title=Silverstein v. Penguin Putnam, Inc. |url=https://www.loeb.com/en/insights/publications/2008/03/silverstein-v-penguin-putnam-inc |website=www.loeb.com {{!}} Loeb & Loeb LLP |access-date=26 November 2024 |language=en}}}}

Adaptations

In 1982, Anni-Frid Lyngstad recorded "Threnody", set to music by Per Gessle, for her third solo album Something's Going On, after she offered him a book of poems by Dorothy Parker.{{Cite web|url=http://roxetteblog.com/2022/03/16/per-gessle-demo-cassettes-teac-at-home-no-1-2-3/|title=Per Gessle demo cassettes TEAC At Home No. 1-2-3|first=Patrícia|last=Peres|date=March 16, 2022}}

In the 2010s some of her poems from the early 20th century have been set to music by the composer Marcus Paus as the operatic song cycle Hate Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra (2014);{{Cite web|url=https://www.dagsavisen.no/kultur/skarpe-historiedrommer-1.1459639|title=Fanger teatrets toner på hvert sitt drømmende album|website=www.dagsavisen.no|date=2 April 2019 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.fvn.no/article/fvn-P2jPX.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210618171021/https://www.fvn.no/article/fvn-P2jPX.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 18, 2021|title=Urfremfører Paus-opera i Kilden|website=www.fvn.no|date=January 28, 2014}} Paus's Hate Songs was described by musicologist Ralph P. Locke as "one of the most engaging works" in recent years; "the cycle expresses Parker's favorite theme: how awful human beings are, especially the male of the species".{{cite journal |last1=Locke |first1=Ralph P. |author-link=Ralph P. Locke |title=Die sieben Todsünden and other works |url=https://www.kwf.org/images/newsletter/kwn371p12-18.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200712003124/https://www.kwf.org/images/newsletter/kwn371p12-18.pdf |archive-date=2020-07-12 |url-status=live |journal=Kurt Weill Newsletter |volume=37|issue=1 |pages=18 }}{{cite journal |last1=Locke |first1=Ralph P. |author-link=Ralph P. Locke |date=2019-12-13|title=Locke's List: Best Opera and Vocal Music of 2019 |url=https://www.classical-scene.com/2019/12/13/lockes-list-2019/ |journal=The Boston Musical Intelligencer }}

With the authorization of the NAACP,{{Cite web | title=Not So Deep as a Well by Myriam Gendron | url=https://myriamgendron.bandcamp.com/album/not-so-deep-as-a-well | quote=The composer wishes to thank the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for authorizing the use of Dorothy Parker's works. | year=2014 | website=Bandcamp | access-date=August 21, 2023}}{{Better source needed|date=August 2023}} lyrics taken from her book of poetry Not So Deep as a Well were used in 2014 by Canadian singer Myriam Gendron to create a folk album of the same title.{{Cite web | url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/myriam-gendron-inspired-by-dorothy-parker-poems-1.2964068 | last=Kelly | first=Jeanette | website=CBC | date=February 20, 2015 | title=Myriam Gendron inspired by Dorothy Parker poems | access-date=August 22, 2023}} Also in 2014, Chicago jazz bassist/singer/composer Katie Ernst issued her album Little Words, consisting of her authorized settings of seven of Parker's poems.{{cite news |url=https://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/katie-ernst-jazz-bass-singer-twin-talk/Content?oid=21877053 |newspaper=Chicago Reader |author=Margasak, Peter |date=April 26, 2016 |title=Jazz bassist and vocalist Katie Ernst rises like the tide |access-date=September 4, 2017}}{{citation

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In 2021 her book Men I'm Not Married To was adapted as an opera of the same name by composer Lisa DeSpain and librettist Rachel J. Peters. It premiered virtually as part of Operas in Place and Virtual Festival of New Operas commissioned by Baldwin Wallace Conservatory Voice Performance, Cleveland Opera Theater, and On Site Opera on February 18, 2021.{{Cite web|title=Men I'm Not Married To|url=https://www.bwvp.org/men|access-date=2022-01-30|website=BWVP|language=en}}

Bibliography

= Essays and reporting =

{{cite journal |author=Parker, Dorothy |date=February 28, 1925 |title=A certain lady |journal=The New Yorker |volume=1 |issue=2 |pages=15–16 }}
{{cite book |author=Parker, Dorothy | title=Constant Reader |location=New York |publisher=Viking Press |year=1970}} (a collection of 31 literary reviews originally published in The New Yorker, 1927–1933)
{{cite book |author=Parker, Dorothy | title=Constant Reader: The New Yorker Columns 1927–28 |location=New York |publisher=McNally Editions |year=2024}} (the complete set of her New Yorker book reviews published between October 1927 and November 1928)
{{cite book |last1=Fitzpatrick |first1=Kevin |title=Complete Broadway, 1918–1923 |date=2014 |publisher=iUniverse |isbn=978-1-4917-2267-1 }} (compilation of reviews, edited by Fitzpatrick; most of these reviews have never been reprinted)
Short story: "[https://www.classicshorts.com/stories/teleycal.html A Telephone Call]"
Short story: "Here We Are"

= Short fiction =

;Collections

1930: Laments for the Living (includes 13 short stories)
The Sexes
Mr. Durant
Just a Little One
New York to Detroit
The Wonderful Old Gentleman
The Mantle of Whistler
A Telephone Call
You Were Perfectly Fine
Little Curtis
The Last Tea
Big Blonde
Arrangement in Black and White
Dialogue at Three in the Morning
1933: After Such Pleasures (includes 11 short stories)
Horsie
Here We Are
Too Bad
From the Diary of a New York Lady
The Waltz
Dusk Before Fireworks
The Little Hours
Sentiment
A Young Woman in Green Lace
Lady With a Lamp
Glory in the Daytime
1939: Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker (reprints of the stories from both previous collections, plus 3 new stories)
Clothe the Naked
Soldiers of the Republic
The Custard Heart
1942: Collected Stories (stories from the first two collections)
1944: The Portable Dorothy Parker (reprints of the stories from the previous collections, plus 8 new stories and verse from 3 poetry books)
The Lovely Leave
The Standard of Living
Song of the Shirt, 1941
Mrs. Hofstadter on Josephine Street
Cousin Larry
I Live on Your Visits
Lolita
The Bolt Behind the Blue
1995: Complete Stories (Penguin Books) (reprints of all stories, plus 13 previously uncollected stories){{cite book | isbn=978-0-14-243721-6 | title=Complete Stories | last1=Parker | first1=Dorothy | year=1995 }}
Such a Pretty Little Picture
A Certain Lady
Oh! He's Charming!
Travelogue
A Terrible Day Tomorrow
The Garter
The Cradle of Civilization
But the One on the Right
Advice to the Little Peyton Girl
Mrs. Carrington and Mrs. Crane
The Road Home
The Game
The Banquet of Crow

= Poetry collections =

1926: Enough Rope
1928: Sunset Gun
1931: Death and Taxes
1936: Collected Poems: Not So Deep as a Well
1938: Two-Volume Novel
1944: Collected Poetry
1996: Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker (UK title: The Uncollected Dorothy Parker)
2009: Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker (2nd ed., with additional poems)

= Plays =

1929: Close Harmony (with Elmer Rice)
1949: The Coast of Illyria (with Ross Evans), about the murder of Mary and Charles Lamb's mother by Mary
1953: Ladies of the Corridor (with Arnaud D'Usseau)

= Screenplays =

1936: Suzy (with Alan Campbell, Horace Jackson and Lenore J. Coffee; based on a novel by Herman Gorman)
1937: A Star is Born (with William A. Wellman, Robert Carson and Alan Campbell)
1938: Sweethearts (with Alan Campbell, Laura Perelman and S.J. Perelman)
1938: Trade Winds (with Alan Campbell and Frank R. Adams; story by Tay Garnett)
1941: Week-End for Three (with Alan Campbell; story by Budd Schulberg)
1942: Saboteur (with Peter Viertel and Joan Harrison)
1947: Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (with Frank Cavett, John Howard Lawson and Lionel Wiggam)
1949: The Fan (with Walter Reisch and Ross Evans; based on Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde)

= Critical studies and reviews of Parker's work =

{{cite book |author=Lauterbach, Richard E. |author-link=Richard Lauterbach |editor=Birmingham, Frederic A. |title=The girls from Esquire |location=London |publisher=Arthur Barker |date=1953 |pages=192–202 |chapter=The legend of Dorothy Parker}}

References

External links

[https://dorothyparker.com/ Dorothy Parker Society]
[https://www.algonquinroundtable.org/ Algonquin Round Table]
[http://www.gettyimages.com/photos/dorothy-parker Dorothy Parker] photo gallery; Getty Images
"[https://web.archive.org/web/20060822081009/http://www.citypaper.com/bob/story.asp?id=10576 Best under appreciated local landmark: Dorothy Parker Memorial Garden]", Baltimore City Paper, September 21, 2005.
[https://start.duckduckgo.com/lite/?q=site%3Aemdashes.com%20%22Dorothy%20Parker%22 coverage of Dorothy Parker] — Emdashes'' (Emily Gordon)

Online works

{{cite journal |url=https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4933/the-art-of-fiction-no-13-dorothy-parker |journal=The Paris Review |title=Dorothy Parker, The Art of Fiction No. 13 | last=Capron | first=Marion |date=Summer 1956 |issue=13 |access-date=November 26, 2024 |archive-date=September 27, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100927111535/https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4933/the-art-of-fiction-no-13-dorothy-parker |url-status=live |url-access=subscription}}
{{Gutenberg author |id=5625 | name=Dorothy Parker}}
{{FadedPage|id=Parker, Dorothy|name=Dorothy Parker|author=yes}}
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[http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poets/parker-dorothy Selected Poems by Dorothy Parker] — University of Toronto Library
[https://web.archive.org/web/20040603194709/http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/index_poet_P.html Dorothy Parker's works] — The Wondering Minstrels Archive
[https://www.poeticous.com/dorothy-parker Dorothy Parker] on Poeticous

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