Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker (August 22, 1893-June 7, 1967) was an American short-story writer, poet, and critic. Her most famous works include A Star Is Born and Big Blonde. She was a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table.¹

Works

Story collections

• Laments for the Living (1930)
• After Such Pleasures (1933)
• Here Lies: The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker (1939)
• Collected Stories (1942)
• The Portable Dorothy Parker (1944)

Poetry collections

• Enough Rope (1926)
• Sunset Gun (1928)
• Death and Taxes (1931)
• Collected Poems: Not So Deep as a Well (1936)
• Collected Poetry (1944)
• Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker (1996)
• Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker _{^{2nd Edition}} (2009)

Plays

• Close Harmony (1929)
• Ladies of the Corridor (1953)

Screenplays

• 1936: Suzy (1936)
• A Star is Born (1937)
• Sweethearts (1938)
• Trade Winds (1938)
• Week-End for Three (1941)
• Saboteur (1942)
• Smash-Up, the Story of a Woman (1947)
• The Fan (1949)

See also

• Dorothy Parker quotes
• Christmas stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald and Dorothy Parker

External Links

• Interview with The Paris Review (Summer 1956)
• Academy of American Poets profile
• Goodreads profile
• IMDb profile
• Internet Broadway Database profile
• Poetry Foundation profile
• Works on Faded Page
• Works on Internet Archive
• Works on LibriVox
• Works on Project Gutenberg
• Dorothy Parker on Find A Grave

References

1. “Dorothy Parker.” Encyclopedia Britannica. Accessed September 2, 2020.