Dorothy Rothschild Parker (1893 - 1967)
American critic, satirical poet, and short story writer.
Parker started her career as "Vanity Fair"'s drama critic (1917-1920).
In 1917, she married Edwin Pond Parker II, whom she divorced in 1928. Between 1927 and 1933, she worked as the "New Yorker"'s theatre and book reviewer and was one of the founders of the famous Algonquin's Hotel's Round Table. Her first book of light verse, Enough Rope (1927) soon became a best seller. In 1936, Enough Rope was published together with two other popular volumes: Sunset Gun (1928) and Death and Taxes (1931) - both marked by her witty and satirical vein - in Collected Poems: Not So Deep as a Well (1936).
Also popular for her short stories, Parker won the O. Henry Award, in 1929, for the best short story of the year with Big Blonde. Among her most famous collections are: Laments for the Living (1930) and After Such Pleasures (1933).
She married again in 1933 and went to Hollywood to collaborate as film writer together with her second husband, Alan Campbell. In 1937, Parker covered the Spanish Civil War for the "New Masses" and became active in left-wing politics. She also collaborated on two plays: The Coast of Illyria (1949) and The Ladies of the Corridor (1953).
Parker lived in Hollywood until Campbell's death in 1963 and then returned to New York City.