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DOROTHY PARKER
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)- Born Dorothy Rothschild in
West End
,
N.J.
, she took her literary name from her brief marriage, in 1917, to Edwin Parker.
Her first published poems appeared in Vanity Fair, and she became
New York
’s first female drama critic at the magazines sister publication, Vogue.
In 1919, as a respected drama critic, she was invited to the Algonquin Hotel,
where she later lived and became a member of the Algonquin Round Table, a
literary circle that included Robert Benchley, Robert Sherwood, James Thurber,
and George Kaufman, among others. She became very involved in the Sacco and
Vanzetti trial in 1927, cementing her lifelong commitment to socialism. Her
short story The Big Blonde won the prestigious O. Henry Award for best short
story of the year, she won and Academy Award for co-writing the screenplay A
Star Is Born, and in 1959 was inducted into the
American
Academy
of Arts and Letters. Upon her death, in 1967 of a heart attack, she bequeathed
her entire literary estate to the NAACP.
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