Dorothy Parker (1) (1893–1967)
Autor/a de The Portable Dorothy Parker [1973 Deluxe Edition]
Per altres autors anomenats Dorothy Parker, vegeu la pàgina de desambiguació.
Sobre l'autor
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 mostra'n més 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) mostra'n menys
Obres de Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker : Selected Stories (Big Blonde, Too Bad, Song of Shirt, Mr. Durant, Diary of a New York Lady, Standard… (1995) 15 exemplars
Alpine Giggle Week: How Dorothy Parker Set Out to Write the Great American Novel and Ended Up in a TB Colony Atop an… (2014) 9 exemplars
Essential Parker CD: Includes Big Blonde; Mrs. Post Enlarges on Etiquette; Horsie (2006) 7 exemplars
Here We Are 5 exemplars
The Standard of Living 4 exemplars
Spreekt u maar 3 exemplars
The Indispensable Dorothy Parker 3 exemplars
New York To Detroit 2 exemplars
You Were Perfectly Fine 2 exemplars
Soldiers of the Republic 2 exemplars
Arrangement in Black and White 2 exemplars
The Algonquin Wits: A Crackling Collection of Bon Mots, Wisecracks, Epigrams and Gags (1968) 2 exemplars
The Last Tea 2 exemplars
Clothe the Naked 2 exemplars
Little Curtis 2 exemplars
Glory in the Daytime 2 exemplars
“De Profundis” 1 exemplars
“General Review of the Sex Situation” 1 exemplars
“Resumee” 1 exemplars
Mrs. Hofstadter on Josephine Street 1 exemplars
Song of the Shirt, 1941 1 exemplars
From the Diary of a New York Lady 1 exemplars
Big Loira 1 exemplars
Too Bad 1 exemplars
Dikter 1 exemplars
Enough Rope Poem 1 exemplars
Enough Rope - A Book of Light Verse by Dorothy Parker;With the Introductory Essay 'The Jazz Age Literature of the Lost… (2022) 1 exemplars
The Wonderful Old Gentleman 1 exemplars
The Waltz 1 exemplars
Mr. Durant 1 exemplars
The Lovely Leave 1 exemplars
Trade Winds [1938 film] — Screenwriter — 1 exemplars
Suzy [1936 film] — Screenwriter — 1 exemplars
One Perfect Rose [poem] 1 exemplars
Parker, Dorothy Archive 1 exemplars
Lady With A Lamp 1 exemplars
The Sayings of Dorothy Parker (Duckworth Sayings Series) by Dorothy Parker (1995-04-06) (1726) 1 exemplars
Parker Dorothy 1 exemplars
Collected Poetry Of Dorothy Parker, The 1 exemplars
But the One on the Right 1 exemplars
Międzymiastowa Nowy Jork - Detroit (Wybór) 1 exemplars
The Bolt Behind the Blue 1 exemplars
Lolita 1 exemplars
I Live on Your Visits 1 exemplars
Sentiment 1 exemplars
Comment [poem] 1 exemplars
Bohemia [poem] 1 exemplars
Cousin Larry 1 exemplars
Story {poem} 1 exemplars
Horsie 1 exemplars
Una imagen perfecta 1 exemplars
The Little Hours 1 exemplars
The Garter (Short Stories) 1 exemplars
Just a Little One 1 exemplars
The Modern library of the world's best books 1 exemplars
Guinevere at Her Fireside" 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 915 exemplars
Fierce Pajamas: An Anthology of Humor Writing from The New Yorker (2001) — Col·laborador — 706 exemplars
American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume One: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker (2000) — Col·laborador — 436 exemplars
The 50 Funniest American Writers: An Anthology of Humor from Mark Twain to The Onion (2011) — Col·laborador — 244 exemplars
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994) — Col·laborador — 183 exemplars
Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Col·laborador — 148 exemplars
The Vicious Circle: Mystery and Crime Stories by Members of the Algonquin Round Table (2007) — Col·laborador — 87 exemplars
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Col·laborador — 81 exemplars
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 3: Intelligent Family Living (1967) — Col·laborador — 33 exemplars
Korter dan kort de beste kortste verhalen uit de wereldliteratuur (1993) — Col·laborador — 28 exemplars
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Col·laborador — 13 exemplars
American Short Stories, Vol.5, The Twentieth Century (1957) — Autor, algunes edicions — 11 exemplars
Great American Short Stories: O. Henry Memorial Prize Winning Stories, 1919-1934 (1935) — Col·laborador — 10 exemplars
The Best Short Stories of 1931 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1931) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
Our lives : American labor stories — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970, Volume II (1970) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
The Best from Cosmopolitan — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
Wives and Lovers — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
The Best Short Stories of 1928 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1928) — Col·laborador — 3 exemplars
Celebration: 60 Years of Good Reading from 60 Authors Chosen by the Literary Guild (1987) 2 exemplars
Schöne Ferien — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Parker, Dorothy
- Nom oficial
- Rothschild, Dorothy (birth name)
- Altres noms
- Dot
Dottie - Data de naixement
- 1893-08-22
- Data de defunció
- 1967-06-07
- Lloc d'enterrament
- NAACP Headquarters, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa de la mort
- heart attack
- Llocs de residència
- Morristown, New Jersey, USA
Hollywood, California, USA
New York, New York, USA - Educació
- convent
- Professions
- journalist
writer
satirist
drama critic
screenwriter
poet (mostra-les totes 8)
short story writer
columnist - Relacions
- Rothschild, Martin (uncle)
Campbell, Alan (husband)
Hellman, Lillian (friend, executor) - Organitzacions
- Algonquin Round Table
Vogue
Vanity Fair
The New Yorker
Paramount Pictures - Premis i honors
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1959)
O. Henry Award (1929)
New Jersey Hall of Fame (2014) - Biografia breu
- 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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Victorian Ironic/Satire on Marriage Short Story a Name that Book (juliol 2015)
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Estadístiques
- Obres
- 150
- També de
- 95
- Membres
- 9,268
- Popularitat
- #2,600
- Valoració
- 4.0
- Ressenyes
- 117
- ISBN
- 225
- Llengües
- 10
- Preferit
- 138