The quintessential New York author would appear to be Dorothy Parker. Raised on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Working at Vogue when she was 21 and writing for Vanity Fair at 24. Attending the birth of The New Yorker with her pals of the Algonquin Round Table. However, was she the most successful and perhaps happiest while living in Hollywood? It occurs to me…
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Listen to Radio Play by the Parker-Campbell Team
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;…