Research Paper On Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker was an American poet, short story writer, critic, and satirist. She was a legendary literary figure who was known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for the 20th century urban foibles.

Dorothy was born in West End, New Jersey, on August 22, 1893. She was the fourth and last child of Jacob (Henry) Rothschild and Annie Eliza (Marston) Rothschild. Her father was a garment manufacturer. Parker’s mother died in 1898. Jacob married Eleanor Francis Lewis in 1900; Dorothy never liked her stepmother. Eleanor died three years after the wedding. Parker’s father died when she was twenty five.

Dorothy Parker went to a Catholic school. She moved to New York City. She wrote during the day and earned money at night playing the piano in a

With two other writers Robert Benchley and Robert Sherwood, she formed the nucleus of the Algonquin Round Table. The Algonquin Round Table was an informal luncheon club held at New York City’s Algonquin Hotel on Forty-Fourth Street. Dorothy was usually the only woman in the group.

Dorothy Parker wrote book reviews for The New Yorker between the years 1927 and 1933. Parker’s first collection of poems, Enough Rope, was published in 1926. Her poems were usually dry, sardonic, elegant commentaries on departing or departed love, or shallowness of modern life. Dorothy’s short story collections, After Such Pleasures (1932) and Here Lies (1939), proved sharp understanding of human nature. She won an O. Henry Prize on one of her pieces called “A Big Blonde.” Her other best-known pieces were soliloquies “A Telephone Call” and “The Waltz.”

During the 1920s Dorothy had extra-marital affairs, drank heavily, and attempted suicide three times. Through all of this, she still maintained the high quality of her texts. In the 1930s she moved to Hollywood with her second husband, Alan Campbell. She worked there as a screen writer, including on the film A Star Is Born (1937). The film received an Oscar for Best Original