Dorothy Parker from Wikimedia Commons
Dorothy Parker Society president Kevin Fitzpatrick writes about how the acerbic poet and critic broke into the business at Vogue and Vanity Fair: "Her education stopped when she was 15. Her mother died when Dorothy was 4 and her father, a successful rag trade entrepreneur, when she was 20. But the biggest fib was that she was a neophyte writer. The truth was that she had been writing poems since she could pick up a pencil, even if the only audience was her family."