Official Dorothy Parker Site Since 1998
June is the anniversary month of the passing of both Dorothy Parker and husband Alan Campbell. It will be a good time to revisit a little-known chapter of their lives, a radio play they co-wrote in 1939 that was never collected into a book or magazine. The anniversary of Alan’s death is June 14, 1963;…
While researching my book The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide, I uncovered a lost 1952 radio show recorded inside the Algonquin Hotel, The Tex and Jinx Show. Among the guests are owner Ben Bodne, Broadway librettist Alan Jay Lerner, and screenwriter-author Anita Loos. It’s an amazing time capsule of the hotel, at…
k72ndst · Legacy of Dorothy Parker The BBC Radio journalist Joanne Griffith interviewed me about the life and legacy of Dorothy Parker on January 27 for BBC Radio 5 Live. Note that Mrs. Parker helped found the Screen Writers Guild, not the Screen Actors Guild. The address of the Algonquin Hotel is 59 West 44th…