Official Dorothy Parker Site Since 1998
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…
Photos of Dorothy Parker are not plentiful. There are perhaps 50 or so out in the public realm, in total. That seems odd in today’s Instagram-driven culture. But there are really not that many. So when a new one popped up on the New York Public Library Digital Archive in 2014, it was a revelation….