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'''Dorothy Parker''' (1893-1967) was an American author. Her works include ''Men I'm Not Married To'' (1922), ''Women I'm Not Married To'' (1922), ''Laments for the Living'' (1930), ''After Such Pleasures'' (1933), ''Here Lies'' (1942), and ''Collected Poems: Not So Deep as a Well'' (1937).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall: New York, 1991.</ref>
'''Dorothy Parker''' (1893-1967) was an American author. Her works include ''Men I'm Not Married To'' (1922), ''Women I'm Not Married To'' (1922), ''Laments for the Living'' (1930), ''After Such Pleasures'' (1933), ''Here Lies'' (1942), and ''Collected Poems: Not So Deep as a Well'' (1937).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall: New York, 1991.</ref>
==Life and works==
Dorothy Parker was born Dorothy Rothschild on August 22, 1893, in New Jersey.<ref>https://www.biography.com/people/dorothy-parker-9433450</ref> Her mother died when she was young, so her father remarried a Roman Catholic, which led to her attending Catholic school (which she later denounced as useless) and left her unsympathetic to her parents' being dead by the time she was 20.<ref>https://www.poemhunter.com/dorothy-parker/biography/</ref> She was tragically forced to support herself as a dance instructor for a few months before she began writing for magazines like ''Vanity Fair'' and ''Vogue'' and indulged in the luxury hotels of the Roaring Twenties.<ref>https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/dorothy-parker</ref> She was a member of the Algonquin Round Table group of writers along with [[Robert Benchley]] and, after a career of trashing New York City's mansions and hotels, moved to [[Hollywood]].<ref>https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/dorothy-parker#poet</ref> During the Great Depression, she decided that socialism, not the elimination of the stock market, could end financial woes, and continued to write for magazines, including ''Esquire''.<ref>http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/parker/bio.htm</ref> She was very active in liberal politics in Hollywood and in the [[Spanish Civil War]] until a rush of conservatism after World War Two and the death of many of her fellow writers left her to be presumed dead and greatly forgotten.<ref>"Parker, Dorothy." ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>
==See also==
*[[Robert Benchley]]
*[[Hollywood values]]
==References==
==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.poemhunter.com/dorothy-parker/poems/ Poems] on the Poem Hunter website
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