Dorothy Parker Society

Author: Kevin Fitzpatrick

I'm a writer and sightseeing guide. I'm the author and editor of seven books tied to New York history. I started the Dorothy Parker Society in 1999 with friends at the Algonquin Hotel.

Walking Tour Coincides with Dottie’s Birthday

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Trace the footsteps of Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, Harpo Marx and the rest of the Algonquin Round Table on a walking tour that visits where the “Vicious Circle” lived, drank, played and worked. The Algonquin Round Table Walking Tour is Sunday, Aug. 22, 2004, 12-2 pm. The date is also Mrs. Parker’s birthday. All the…

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New Parker Book Released

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Dorothy Parker: In Her Own Words is the title of the new book by Barry Day, out now from Taylor Trade Publishing. He uses Parker’s stories, letters and verse to tell the tale of her life. Day was kind enough to take part in a Q&A; for the site, read it here. All Parker fans…

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Sarasota Show Based on Parker Works

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Carolyn Michel brings Dorothy Parker to life in Jack Fournier’s one-woman show, Dorothy Parker: One Foot in Scarsdale. Performances of the show, a part of Florida Studio Theatre’s Summer Sideshows Series, begin June 30 in Sarasota’s Gompertz Theatre. According to Fournier, the idea for a show about Parker started with a trivia question: “Who had…

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Reminder about this week’s events

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Author Marion Meade has a reading/book signing to promote her new work Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin on Thursday, June 10, 7:30 p.m. at Barnes & Noble (Broadway and 82nd). The book, about Dorothy Parker, Edna Ferber, Zelda Fitzgerald and Edna St. Vincent Millay during the Twenties, came out last month. We are arranging a…

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