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Do you celebrate New Year’s Day or Public Domain Day? For Dorothy Parker fans, why not both? Just as we published last year, turning the calendar pages of U.S. copyright law, on January 1, 2021, more works of art, film, music, poetry, and writing will enter the public domain. This milestone will bring out work…
What is the best magazine interview–ever–that Dorothy Parker sat down for? This one. Journalist Gloria Steinem was 30 and Parker was 71 when they met in the winter of 1964-65 for a long chat that ended up as a 2,300 word article in the New York edition of The Ladies Home Journal. At the time…
In the summer of 1965 the war in Vietnam was escalating, astronaut Ed White became the first American to conduct a spacewalk, the World’s Fair was underway in Queens, and Martin Luther King, Jr. was leading protests from Selma to Chicago. On a July day the assistant city editor from the New York World-Telegram and…
Dorothy Parker has come home to New York. On August 22–the 127th anniversary of her birth–the poet’s cremains were buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx beside her parents and grandparents. In a small private ceremony witnessed by less than 12 people, the urn containing Mrs. Parker’s cremains ended a 53-year odyssey. The story was…
On August 22, Dorothy Parker’s birthday, an urn containing her cremains was interred in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx. The urn was brought back from Baltimore, where it had resided for 32 years outside the national headquarters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Mrs. Parker is now interred next to…
Dorothy Parker has lent her name to children, pets, a racehorse in Ireland and a bald eagle in Missouri. Her name is on gin distilled in Brooklyn, a disco in Brazil, and hotel suites and bed & breakfast rooms. Prince famous named a song for her. Plus there are more than 25 people walking around…
Independence Day came a few days early for the American Bald Eagle named Dorothy Parker. Following seven months of rehabilitation after being shot in rural Missouri, the new veterinarian who saved her life released the eagle back into the wild on June 27. The eagle was shot in late November. Officers from the Missouri Department…
Sunday, June 7, is the 53rd anniversary of the death of Dorothy Parker. Join the Dorothy Parker Society for our annual toast, this year held live online via Zoom. Due to the pandemic, we will not be gathering at our usual spot in the Algonquin Hotel lobby, but instead will be online together. Time Zones:…
June is the anniversary month of the passing of both Dorothy Parker and husband Alan Campbell. It will be a good time to revisit a little-known chapter of their lives, a radio play they co-wrote in 1939 that was never collected into a book or magazine. The anniversary of Alan’s death is June 14, 1963;…
Photos of Dorothy Parker are not plentiful. There are perhaps 50 or so out in the public realm, in total. That seems odd in today’s Instagram-driven culture. But there are really not that many. So when a new one popped up on the New York Public Library Digital Archive in 2014, it was a revelation….