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Dorothy Parker was the youngest child of J. Henry Rothschild, a prosperous Jewish clothing manufacturer, and Eliza A. Marston, a Scottish Presbyterian, who died while she was an infant. She was educated at the Blessed Sacrament Convent School, New York City. After her father’s death in 1914 she tried freelance writing. In June, 1917, she married Edwin Pond Parker II, a young stock broker who soon volunteered as an ambulance driver in World War I. They were divorced in 1928, but Parker called herself Mrs. Dorothy Parker for the rest of her life.
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