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On
August 22, 1893, Dorothy Parker was born to J. Henry and Elizabeth
Rothschild, at their summer home in West End, New Jersey. Growing up
on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, her childhood was an unhappy one.
Both her mother and step-mother died when she was young; her uncle,
Martin Rothschild, went down on the Titanic in 1912; and her father
died the following year. Young Dorothy attended a Catholic grammar
school, then a finishing school in Morristown, NJ. Her formal
education abruptly ended when she was 14.
In
1914, Dorothy sold her first poem to Vanity Fair. At age 22, she took
an editorial job at Vogue. She continued to write poems for
newspapers and magazines, and in 1917 she joined Vanity Fair, taking
over for P.G. Wodehouse as drama critic. That same year she married a
stockbroker, Edwin P. Parker. But the marriage was tempestuous, and
the couple divorced in 1928.
In
1919, Parker became a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table,
an informal gathering of writers who lunched at the Algonquin Hotel.
The “Vicious Circle” included Robert Benchley, Harpo Marx, George
S Kaufman, and Edna Ferber, and was known for its scathing wit and
intellectual commentary. In 1922, Parker published her first short
story, “Such a Pretty Little Picture," for Smart Set.
When
the New Yorker debuted in 1925, Parker was listed on the editorial
board. Over the years, she contributed poetry, fiction and book
reviews as the “Constant Reader.”
Parker’s
first collection of poetry, Enough Rope, was published in 1926, and
was a bestseller. Her two subsequent collections were Sunset Gun in
1928 andDeath and Taxes in 1931. Her collected fiction came out in
1930 as Laments for the Living.
During
the 1920s, Parker traveled to Europe several times. She befriended
Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, socialites Gerald and Sarah
Murphy, and contributed articles to the New Yorker and Life. While
her work was successful and she was well-regarded for her wit and
conversational abilities, she suffered from depression and alcoholism
and attempted suicide.
In
1929, she won the O. Henry Award for her autobiographical short story
“Big Blonde.” She produced short fiction in the early 1930s, and
also began writing drama reviews for the New Yorker. In 1934, Parker
married actor-writer Alan Campbell in New Mexico; the couple
relocated to Los Angeles and became a highly paid screenwriting team.
They labored for MGM and Paramount on mostly forgettable features,
the highlight being an Academy Award nomination for A Star Is Born in
1937. They divorced in 1947, and remarried in 1950.
Parker,
who became a socialist in 1927 when she became involved in the Sacco
and Vanzetti trial, was called before the House on Un-American
Activities in 1955. She pleaded the Fifth Amendment.
Parker
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. That same year, her husband died of an overdose. On
June 6, 1967, Parker was found dead of a heart attack in a New York
City hotel at age 73. A firm believer in civil rights, she bequeathed
her literary estate to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Upon his
assassination some months later, the estate was turned over to the
NAACP.
(www.poets.org)
