Parker Biographer New Book Due

Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin by Marion Meade is coming out May 18. We were kindly sent an advance copy, so we could write about it here. It is highly recommended for all. It concerns the 1920s of Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna Ferber and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Meade wrote the excellent Parker bio What Fresh Hell is This in 1987. This new book has even more details about Dottie’s life in the 1920s.

Meade is also doing 2 readings in New York, details here. We’re having a gathering on June 10th after her second one.