The early years of Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker

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."

April 5, 2015

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