YParker, Dorothy1893╨1967writer and criticBorn in West End, near Long Branch, New Jersey, on August 22, 1893, Dorothy Rothschild was educated at Miss Dana╒s School, Morristown, New Jersey, and the Blessed Sacrament Convent School, New York City. She joined the editorial staff of Vogue in 1916 and the next year moved to Vanity Fair. In 1917 she married Edwin Pond Parker II, whom she divorced in 1928 but whose surname she retained in her professional career. She left Vanity Fair in 1920 in a dispute over a particularly acerbic theatrical review she had submitted and decided to try her hand at freelance writing. She collaborated with playwright Elmer Rice on Close Harmony, which had a short run in 1924. Her first book of light, witty, and sometimes cynical verse, Enough Rope, was published in 1926 and became a best seller. In 1927 Parker became book reviewer for the New Yorker, and she was associated with that magazine as a staff writer or contributor for much of the rest of her career. Early in the 1920s she was one of the founders of the famous ╥Algonquin Round Table╙ at the Algonquin Hotel in Manhattan and was by no means the least of a group of dazzling wits that included Robert Benchley, Robert E. Sherwood, James Thurber, George S. Kaufman, Franklin P. Adams, and others. It was there, in conversations that frequently spilled over from the offices of the New Yorker, that she established her reputation as one of the most brilliant conversationalists in New York. Her rapier wit became so widely renowned that quips and mots were frequently attributed to her on the strength of her reputation alone. She came to epitomize the liberated woman of the Twenties. The theme of the bright but heartbroken girl-about-New York was important in many of Parker╒s later poems, which were published in Sunset Gun, 1928, and Death and Taxes, 1931, and later collected in Collected Poems: Not So Deep as a Well, 1936, and in her often bittersweet short stories, collected in Laments for the Living, 1930, After Such Pleasures, 1933, and Here Lies, 1939. In 1933 she married Alan Campbell and thereafter collaborated with him on a number of film scenarios, including A Star Is Born, 1937. In the later 1940s her liberal sympathies lost her employment in the film industry, and she returned to magazine writing, contributing book reviews to Esquire for a time. She collaborated with Arnaud d╒Usseau on a play, Ladies of the Corridor, that was produced on Broadway in 1953. She lived in Hollywood, California, until Campbell╒s death in 1963 and then returned to New York City. She died in New York City on June 7, 1967. .styl ` ( ! ¬ 5¬ 5¬ - !I !I ! !I E !I P !I ▄ !I τ !I ƒ !I ¼ !I !I !I J 5¬ K !I w !I ü !I o !I y !I ú 5¬ ñ !I ' !I 1 !I = !I L !I k !I æ !I ╥ !I Φ !I ∩ !I !I !I !I Æ !I á !I @ !I G !I å !I £ !I link `
