Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) was an American poet and fiction writer, a critic and, perhaps most famously, a satirist and founding member of the Algonquin Round Table, a literary club of fellow ...

Dorothy Parker, circa 1948, reviews a draft copy of a manuscript at her home. Getty Images It features hand-carved roses and takes its inscription from one of Parker’s poems, published in the ...

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967), whose birthday is today, endures as an emblematic early New Yorker voice. As a book reviewer for that magazine, in the persona of the “Constant Reader,” she once wrote of A ...

As we shall be reminded by Friday’s Poem of the Day, T. S. Eliot named April “the cruellest month.” In today’s selection for this week of April poetry, Dorothy Parker (1893–1967), in fine, utterly ...

Born in 1893 in New York, Parker wrote poems, short stories and theater and literary reviews for magazines like Vogue, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.

Ms. Parker was known for her essays, short stories and poems published in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair and Vogue, as well as for her wry humor. She died in 1967 at 73 in her suite at the Volney ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Dorothy Parker died in 1967, but it was not until last year that her ashes found a final resting place. Now, at a memorial ceremony at the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, her ...

Born in 1893 in New York, Parker wrote poems, short stories and theater and literary reviews for magazines like Vogue, Vanity Fair and The New Yorker. She died without leaving instructions as to ...