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Dorothy Parker
Author · 47 books

Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads data base. Dorothy Parker was an American writer, poet and critic best known for her caustic wit, wisecracks, and sharp eye for 20th century urban foibles. From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. Following the breakup of the circle, Parker traveled to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting. Her successes there, including two Academy Award nominations, were curtailed as her involvement in left-wing politics led to a place on the Hollywood blacklist. Dismissive of her own talents, she deplored her reputation as a "wisecracker." Nevertheless, her literary output and reputation for her sharp wit have endured.

Series

Books

Selected Readings from The Portable Dorothy Parker book cover

Selected Readings from The Portable Dorothy Parker

1976

Death and Taxes book cover

Death and Taxes

1931

Essential Parker CD book cover

Essential Parker CD

Includes Big Blonde; Mrs. Post Enlarges on Etiquette; Horsie

2006

You were perfectly fine book cover

You were perfectly fine

2011

Dorothy Parker book cover

Dorothy Parker

In Her Own Words

2004

Constant Reader book cover

Constant Reader

1970

A Telephone Call book cover

A Telephone Call

1930

Enough Rope book cover

Enough Rope

1926

Antología del cuento norteamericano book cover

Antología del cuento norteamericano

2002

Big Blonde and Other Stories book cover

Big Blonde and Other Stories

1929

Here We Are book cover

Here We Are

1931

Dorothy Parker Stories book cover

Dorothy Parker Stories

1933

Big Blonde book cover

Big Blonde

1929

The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker book cover

The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

1944

Close Harmony

1929

Çıplakları Giydir book cover

Çıplakları Giydir

1938

Here Lies book cover

Here Lies

The Collected Stories of Dorothy Parker

1939

Alpine Giggle Week book cover

Alpine Giggle Week

2014

Sunset Gun book cover

Sunset Gun

1928

Parker book cover

Parker

Selected Stories

1995

Narrativa completa de Dorothy Parker book cover

Narrativa completa de Dorothy Parker

1924

Men I'm Not Married To book cover

Men I'm Not Married To

1922

Colgando de un hilo book cover

Colgando de un hilo

2015

The Collected Short Stories of Dorothy Parker book cover

The Collected Short Stories of Dorothy Parker

2023

The Uncollected Dorothy Parker book cover

The Uncollected Dorothy Parker

2006

Not So Deep As A Well book cover

Not So Deep As A Well

Collected Poems

1936

The Custard Heart book cover

The Custard Heart

2018

The Sexes book cover

The Sexes

1944

La vie à deux book cover

La vie à deux

1984

The Voice of the Poet book cover

The Voice of the Poet

American Wits: Ogden Nash, Dorothy Parker, Phyllis McGinley

2003

The Portable Dorothy Parker book cover

The Portable Dorothy Parker

1944

The Dorothy Parker Audio Collection book cover

The Dorothy Parker Audio Collection

2004

Horsie book cover

Horsie

2025

Dorothy Parker book cover

Dorothy Parker

Complete Broadway, 1918-1923

2014

New York stories book cover

New York stories

2015

New Yorker Geschichten book cover

New Yorker Geschichten

1995

The Best of Dorothy Parker book cover

The Best of Dorothy Parker

1995

Giochi di società book cover

Giochi di società

2013

After Such Pleasures book cover

After Such Pleasures

1933

Men I'm Not Married To-Women I'm Not Married To book cover

Men I'm Not Married To-Women I'm Not Married To

Unabridged

2017

Laments for the Living, Collected Stories book cover

Laments for the Living, Collected Stories

1930

The Collected Dorothy Parker book cover

The Collected Dorothy Parker

1944

The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker book cover

The Poetry and Short Stories of Dorothy Parker

1994

The Ladies of the Corridor book cover

The Ladies of the Corridor

1954

The Standard of Living book cover

The Standard of Living

1941

Constant Reader book cover

Constant Reader

The New Yorker Columns 1927–28

2024

Not Much Fun book cover

Not Much Fun

The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker

1996

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