Literary cohorts and members of the famous Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker and Franklin P. Adams wrote these two short books to humorously contrast the experiences of both men and women meeting, dating...and then deciding NOT to marry various men and women in their lives. Adams - a renowned wit and celebrated newspaper columnist - helped to launch Parker's career and they enjoyed a decades-long friendship. These two works are presented here in their original and unabridged format.
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978-1-958943-23-6 (9781958943236)
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Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) was an American writer, poet, critic and screenwriter best known for her sharp, acerbic wit. Born Dorothy Rothschild in West End, New Jersey in 1893, Parker pursued writing early, joining the editorial staff at Vogue in 1916 and then becoming the drama critic for Vanity Fair in 1917. She married Edwin Pond Parker in 1917, retaining his last name after their divorce in 1928. Fired from Vanity Fair for her sharp tone in her critiques, she became a freelance writer, publishing her first book of verse in 1926, "Enough Rope," which became a best-seller. She wrote other books of light verse - Sunset Gun (1928) and Death and Taxes (1931) - which were collected in Not So Deep As a Well in 1936. In 1919, Parker co-founded an informal quasi-literary group that would meet for lunch at the Algonquin Hotel in New York and featured some of the best writers of the age, including Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, Alexander Woollcott, James Thurber, and Herbert Ross and became known as the Algonquin Round Table. Regular meetings of the Round Table would last until 1943. In 1927, Parker began her long association with The New Yorker when she became their book critic, earning the nickname "Constant Reader." She would contribute to The New Yorker for the rest of her career. In 1933, Parker and her second husband, Alan Campbell decamped to Hollywood to become screenwriters, working on more than fifteen films, including 1937's "A Star is Born," which netted Parker and Campbell Academy Award nominations. Parker's left-wing politics would eventually get her blacklisted in Hollywood, but she never stopped writing, publishing plays and book reviews throughout the '40's and '50's. She lived in Hollywood until Campbell's death in 1963, after which she returned to New York. In 1967, Parker suffered a heart attack and died at the age of 73. In her will, she left her entire estate to Martin Luther King, Jr. and, upon his death, to the NAACP. Parker's ashes are interred at her family's plot in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.
