Dorothy Parker, born Dorothy Rothschild, was a notable American writer, poet, screenwriter, and critic, known for her clever and often sharp-tongued remarks. She was a founding member of the
Algonquin Round Table, a literary group known for their wit and humor. Parker attended Miss Dana's School in Morristown, New Jersey, and the Blessed Sacrament Convent School in New York City. She worked as a drama critic for Vanity Fair and later became a freelance writer.
Her first book of verse, Enough Rope, was a best-seller, followed by Sunset Gun and Death and Taxes, which were collected in Collected Poems: Not So Deep As a Well. Parker worked as a book reviewer for The New Yorker and was associated with the magazine as a staff writer or contributor for much of her career. She won the O. Henry Award for the best short story of the year in 1929. Parker and her second husband, Alan Campbell, collaborated as screenwriters in Hollywood, working on over 15 films, including A Star Is Born, for which they were nominated for an Academy Award. Parker was also active in left-wing politics and reported from the Spanish Civil War. Her witty remarks and clever one-liners are legendary, and she is often remembered as a symbol of the liberated woman of the 1920s.
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"When my eyes are weeds,
And my lips are petals, spinning
Down the wind that has beginning
Where the crumpled beeches start
In a fringe of salty reeds;
When my arms are elder-bushes,
And the rangy lilac pushes
Upward, upward through my heart;
Summer, do your worst!
Light your tinsel moon, and call on
Your performing stars to fall on
Headlong through your paper sky;
Nevermore shall I be cursed
By a flushed and amorous slattern,
With her dusty laces' pattern
Trailing, as she straggles by."
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