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Dorothy Parker (1) (1893–1967)

Auteur van The Portable Dorothy Parker [1973 Deluxe Edition]

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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 toon meer 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) toon minder

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Gangbare naam
Parker, Dorothy
Officiële naam
Rothschild, Dorothy (birth name)
Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
Dot
Dottie
Geboortedatum
1893-08-22
Overlijdensdatum
1967-06-07
Graflocatie
NAACP Headquarters, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
USA
Geboorteplaats
Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
Plaats van overlijden
New York, New York, USA
Oorzaak van overlijden
heart attack
Woonplaatsen
Morristown, New Jersey, USA
Hollywood, California, USA
New York, New York, USA
Opleiding
convent
Beroepen
journalist
writer
satirist
drama critic
screenwriter
poet (toon alle 8)
short story writer
columnist
Relaties
Rothschild, Martin (uncle)
Campbell, Alan (husband)
Hellman, Lillian (friend, executor)
Organisaties
Algonquin Round Table
Vogue
Vanity Fair
The New Yorker
Paramount Pictures
Prijzen en onderscheidingen
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1959)
O. Henry Award (1929)
New Jersey Hall of Fame (2014)
Korte biografie
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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The short stories still exhibit the writing talent of Ms. Parker, ninety years or so on. The dialogue is true to my memory of how contrived a lot of the chit-chat from my parents' days was; she writes so that inflections of speech, and therefore subtle meanings, are recorded faithfully. I loved her savage wit and her sharp awareness of bad form when someone commits a social crime.
Disappointment in love is a common theme. Ms Parker writes from her own experiences at how heart-braking it is.
There is an introduction to this collection written by Brendan Gill. It is worth reading for an overall evaluation of her work.
The copious number of poems, I have not dwelt on, but the final section is a selection of her reviews of books and theatre. These are often sparkling efforts, full of humour and outrage at the good or the bad.
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ivanfranko | 16 andere besprekingen | Mar 28, 2024 |
The Viking Press, 1936; first edition, no additional printings indicated; ed cloth boards, NO dust jacket.
 
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RedeemedRareBooks | Mar 23, 2024 |
Thank god that's over with. I believe that Parker's legacy as an extemporaneous wit far exceeds that of her prose. It is as a poet that she really shines.
 
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Treebeard_404 | 1 andere bespreking | Jan 23, 2024 |
Short stories which I don’t align with. Well written
 
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