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…
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Parker and the Baltimore Connection Remembered Today
On this date 45 years ago, Dorothy Parker died of a heart attack at age 73 in her apartment on the Upper East Side. Today NPR aired a nice story about Mrs. Parker’s remains ending up in Baltimore. I did speak to the reporter for quite a bit. Here is the rest of the story,…