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Her father was the son of Sampson Jacob Rothschild (1818–1899) and Mary Greissman (b. 1824), both Prussian-born Jews. Sampson Jacob Rothschild was a merchant who immigrated to the United States around 1846, settling in Monroe County, Alabama.
Sep 26, 2024 · Dorothy Parker, American short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and critic known for her witty, and often acerbic, remarks. She was one of the founders of the Algonquin Round Table, an informal literary group.
Raised on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, Dorothy Parker built a career that was defined by her wit and her incisive commentary on contemporary America. She was born two months prematurely at her family’s summer home in West End, New Jersey.
Jun 7, 2017 · On the 50th anniversary of her death, Hephzibah Anderson looks beyond Dorothy Parker’s wisecracks to find another side of the legendary wit.
Nov 16, 2023 · In the 1920s, Dorothy Parker (born August 22, 1893) came to fame writing book reviews, poetry, and short fiction for fledgling magazine The New Yorker. She was also a fixture of the Algonquin...
Mar 3, 2020 · Dorothy Parker (born Dorothy Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and satirist. Despite a roller coaster of a career that included a stint on a Hollywood blacklist, Parker produced a large volume of witty, successful work that has endured.
On June 6, 1967, Parker was found dead of a heart attack in a New York City hotel at age seventy-three. A firm believer in civil rights, she bequeathed her literary estate to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Upon his assassination the following year, the estate was turned over to the NAACP.
