Official Dorothy Parker Site Since 1998
Penguin Classics is re-launching its entire backlist in January 2003 and “Dorothy Parker Complete Stories” is among the first 21 books getting a new look. “Complete Stories” – first released in 1995 – will come out with a new cover. The art is the famous Al Hirschfeld cartoon of Mrs. Parker peeking from behind a…
Dorothy Parker’s first biographer, John Keats, died on Nov. 3 in Kingston, Ont. He was 79 and lived in Kingston and on Pine Island in Ontario, in the Thousand Islands region of the St. Lawrence River. Thirty years ago, he penned the first biography of Mrs. Parker, You Might as Well Live: The Life and…
My favorite part about running a Dorothy Parker web site? Connecting with people with some tangible link to Mrs. Parker. Some have been her great-nieces, various writers, assorted researchers, or such as today’s dispatch, from Ms. Lorraine Gibson. Her grandfather, the late Warren Dixon, was a chef to the stars during the Depression. Lorraine sent…
What is the connection between screen goddess Marilyn Monroe, Harvard University, and Mrs. Parker? It seems the doomed actress was also a fan of Dottie. The Portable Dorothy Parker was among five books owned by Marilyn Monroe that were donated to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. (On Oct. 1, 1999, Radcliffe College and Harvard…
Writer-Researcher on Parker, her place in American letters, and the Algonquin Round Table We have the good fortune to ask Ten Questions of Stuart Y. Silverstein. His 1996 book, Not Much Fun, The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker, presented for the first time more than 120 poems not found in other Parker collections. The book…