Official Dorothy Parker Site Since 1998
The upcoming 2021 Parkerfest has given me the opportunity to look back at the events that the Dorothy Parker Society has held in the past, starting in 1999. After few hours of looking at old photos in the archives–people with cigarettes in hand indoors–and reviewing the “recaps” of past Parkerfest soirees–yes we chartered a yacht…
The Repeal Society is holding its 4th annual Repeal Day Party on Thursday, December 5, and they are having at New York Distilling Company, purveyors of Dorothy Parker Gin. The party is hosted by Miss Art Deco Dandy Dillinger and it will feature a special treat for Dorothy Park fans: the mink coat we raised…
This week is not only the 126th anniversary of Dorothy Parker’s birth, it is also the 20th anniversary of the Dorothy Parker Society. Lift your glass today for a toast. On August 28, 1999, a walking tour set out from the Upper West Side, beginning at 214 West Seventy-second Street (recently demolished childhood home of…
New York will remember the 125th anniversary of Dorothy Parker’s birthday with two events open to the public on Wednesday, August 22. She was born Dorothy Rothschild on Aug. 22, 1893, in Long Branch New Jersey. A walking tour of her Upper West Side neighborhood will be held from 3:00-5:00 p.m. Then the festivities transfer…
Several of the backers of the Kickstarter crowd funding campaign to purchase one of Dorothy Parker’s mink coats came together last weekend for a party at the Algonquin Round Table. These were the folks who pledged enough money to actually wear Mrs. Parker’s mink; model Dandy Dillinger was the first. It was an early morning…
The members and friends of the Dorothy Parker Society successfully funded the Kickstarter campaign to bring Dorothy Parker’s vintage mink coat back to Manhattan, where it belongs. These are the folks that backed the campaign. Some of them will actually be wearing the mink at a special backers party at the Algonquin Hotel Round Table…
Dorothy Parker, considered one of America’s greatest writers and renowned for her wit, adored the finer things in life. She famously said, “Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.” This Kickstarter project is simple: to purchase Mrs. Parker’s vintage mink coat from a collector and bring it back to…
To celebrate the 123rd anniversary of the birth of Dorothy Rothschild, we have events planned in New York and Los Angeles. If you can’t make it, raise a glass wherever you are. New York – Monday, August 22, Noon, Dorothy Parker Upper West Side Walking Tour. Visit Mrs. Parker’s neighborhood and walk in her footsteps…
The forty-ninth anniversary of Dorothy Parker’s death is Tuesday, June 7. We will be marking the occasion in New York at the Blue Bar of the Algonquin Hotel, 59 W. 44th Street, from 5-7:00 p.m. If you can’t join us, a raise a glass or read a poem wherever you may. The 1967 front-page obituary…
Celebrate two of New York’s greatest fiction writers on a walking tour to trace their footsteps in the neighborhoods they made famous: Dorothy Parker and Dawn Powell. See their homes and haunts on a walk that begins at the landmark Algonquin Hotel and ends in Greenwich Village. The tour starts at Noon on Sunday, June…