Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Rothschild Parker was an American writer who wrote poems, playwrights, and short stories. Parker is most well known for her sharp wit, pessimistic attitude, and use of irony. Most of her poems were works of satire, which ridicules a situation for the purpose of bringing about change. Most critics marvel at the work of Dorothy Parker, yet others seem to find it dark and cynical. (Thurman)
Parker was born Dorothy Rothschild on August 22, 1893 in West End, New Jersey to her Jewish father, J. Henry, and Scottish mother, Eliza. Parker’s mother passed away when she was only four years of age on July 20, 1897, this along with the remarriage of her father, the death of her brother aboard ...
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she became a writer for the magazine Vanity Fair, but that ended quickly because of her crude humor. The Algonquin Round Table, referred to as the Vicious Circle by Parker (Fitzpatrick), was a board of literary writers that wanted to achieve fame and fortune through their own self-publicizing techniques. Dorothy Parker was a critical part of the board of writers that made up the Round Table. To critics, she was “the tongue heard ‘round the world”. (Reference Answers) These writers met regularly and included Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, Harold Ross, Robert Sherwood, and James Thurber. Parker found an acquaintance in Robert Benchley, and later knew that he was her friend through an act of protest when Parker was fired from Vanity Fair and Benchley resigned. Parker admitted it was, “the greatest act of friendship I’d known”. (Itzkovitz)
Dorothy Rothschild became Dorothy Parker in 1917. She and Edwin Pond Parker were both alcoholics and after he was ...
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but they soon realized her opinions were too strong and could not support her sharp wit, they people at Vogue transferred her back to Vanity Fair. Dorothy Parker then went on the Ainslee’s magazine critiquing drama and simultaneously sending self-employed work to Life magazine. At this time, she began to be quite famous and wrote essays for Saturday Evening Post and Ladies Home Journal. (Thurman)
Plays written by Parker were often joined forces with other playwrights and were works of wonder. Some of Dorothy Parker’s plays are “Close Harmony”, “A Star is Born”, and “The Ladies of the Corridor”. “Close Harmony” was an utterly unsuccessful play that she wrote with Elmer Rice and her ...
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