Official Dorothy Parker Site Since 1998
The year 1953 was a major one in the life of Dorothy Parker. She was living in Manhattan again after years spent in California. In June she was subpoenaed by Senator Joseph McCarthy, along with Lillian Hellman and Rockwell Kent. On August 22 Parker turned sixty. In October her last Broadway play, The Ladies of…
With my new book The Algonquin Round Table New York: A Historical Guide (Lyons Press) coming out on Jan. 6, I have been putting some of the research material online. This brief newspaper report about Dorothy Parker arriving on a steamship in New York Harbor is from the New York World, Feb. 1, 1930. She…