Official Dorothy Parker Site Since 1998
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…
Today in the United States it is Martin Luther King Day, of course Dorothy Parker left her estate to him. This morning I created a little social media image, drawing on a line from a March 1921 review that appeared in Ainslee’s. Not long afterwards, I got an IM from someone, saying they “never heard…
Reading biographies of Dorothy Parker, you’ll see why she left her estate to Dr. Martin Luther King, a man she never met. By some accounts, Dr. King, when informed he had been named the beneficiary in her will in 1967, had no idea who Dorothy Parker was. However, a careful reading of Dorothy Parker’s life…