Dorothy Parker (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Dorothy Parker, called the wittiest woman in America during her heyday in the 1920’s, was born Dorothy Rothschild in West End, New Jersey, in 1893. Her Scottish Presbyterian mother died when she was still an infant; her Jewish father was a strict disciplinarian who showed her little affection. After being gently asked to leave a Catholic convent school for her somewhat heretical wit, she attended Miss Dana’s School for Young Ladies in Morristown, New Jersey, where she was matriculated in 1911. After one year there, however, she left, and for the next few years, she lived in a...
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