Official Dorothy Parker Site Since 1998
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…
What is the best magazine interview–ever–that Dorothy Parker sat down for? This one. Journalist Gloria Steinem was 30 and Parker was 71 when they met in the winter of 1964-65 for a long chat that ended up as a 2,300 word article in the New York edition of The Ladies Home Journal. At the time…
In the summer of 1965 the war in Vietnam was escalating, astronaut Ed White became the first American to conduct a spacewalk, the World’s Fair was underway in Queens, and Martin Luther King, Jr. was leading protests from Selma to Chicago. On a July day the assistant city editor from the New York World-Telegram and…
Dorothy Parker has lent her name to children, pets, a racehorse in Ireland and a bald eagle in Missouri. Her name is on gin distilled in Brooklyn, a disco in Brazil, and hotel suites and bed & breakfast rooms. Prince famous named a song for her. Plus there are more than 25 people walking around…
A porta potty stands in the spot where Dorothy Parker’s front door once was. The last childhood home young Dottie Rothschild shared with both parents—her mother Eliza Marston Rothschild died when she was just four—is today a construction zone at 214 West Seventy-second Street, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. This was the Rothschild family home…
Here is the spring walking tour schedule. (Note the March 29 walk is cancelled): Dorothy Parker’s Upper West Side Walking Tour Saturday, April 12 Noon-2:00 PM, Riverside Park and West Seventy-second Street Visit Dorothy Parker’s neighborhood and walk in her footsteps to her former apartments, haunts, school and more. See one of the most beautiful…
Hollywood’s Golden Age comes alive during a special bus tour of Los Angeles locations connected to Dorothy Parker, New York’s wittiest woman who had a 30-year screenwriting career. The tour is open to the public; it begins and ends at Book Soup, 8818 W. Sunset Blvd (note bus pickup is across the street at old…
The sinking of the RMS Titanic 100 years ago this week has been generating headlines for days. The disaster also had a huge impact on the life of Dorothy Parker, who lost her uncle in the tragedy at sea, an event that in some small way contributed to the declining health of her father. Reading…
The news that one of Dorothy Parker’s childhood homes could be demolished (first reported by Leslie Albrecht) is now leading to a letter writing campaign. On Friday, the New York Times also wrote about the old house at 214 West 72nd Street. It’s been on the website since 1998. The owners of the building was…
Special event: “Dorothy Parker’s Upper West Side” on Saturday, Nov. 12. Meet at Riverside Park, West 72nd Street and Riverside Drive (at Eleanor Roosevelt) at 12 p.m. Walk is led by Kevin C. Fitzpatrick, author of A Journey into Dorothy Parker’s New York and president of the Dorothy Parker Society. See more than a dozen…