![]() You can also read one of my favorite short stories, “The Waltz,” in “ The 50 funniest American Writers.” This is not the version available at the library but you can listen to the audio book with Hoopla, one of our digital downloading services. ![]() ![]() It includes an introduction by Somerset Maugham and is one of only three of the Viking series that has never been out of print. My personal copy is the Viking Portable Library edition printed in 1944 as part of a series of books written for WWII servicemen overseas. The majority of Parker’s writing, both poetry and short stories, is available in “The Portable Dorothy Parker” which turns 75 on May 15th. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that’s too adorable, I’d rather have money.” A lot of her writing can be read as fictionalized biography and you can hear the stress in her voice. One of her most famous quotes is “I’d like to have money. Her mother died when she was five and she had a difficult relationship with her father before he also died, leaving her to fend for herself. She had a way with words.ĭorothy Parker was born Dorothy Rothschild in 1893 but she was quick to point out it was not THOSE Rothschilds. ![]() “What fresh hell is this?” is how she is said to have answered the door/telephone. The Algonquin Round Table – Portrait of Art Samuels, Charlie MacArthur, Harpo Marx, Dorothy Parker and Alexander Woollcott, circa 1919 “Excuse my dust” was Dorothy Parker’s self-chosen epitaph. ![]()
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