Parker, Dorothy [Rothschild]
Parker, Dorothy [Rothschild]( 1893–1967),after a career as a dramatic and literary critic in her native New York City, during which she achieved an almost legendary reputation for her malicious and sardonic bons mots, published her first book of poetry, Enough Rope (1926). This and the two volumes which followed, Sunset Gun (1928) and Death and Taxes (1931), all collected in Not So Deep as a Well (1936), are works of light, satirical verse, characterized by brilliant concision, flippant cynicism, and caustic variations on certain dominant themes, such as frustrated love and cheated idealism in modern living. Her short stories and sketches, published in Laments for the Living (1930) and After Such Pleasures (1933), and collected in Here Lies (1939), possess the same wry quality and polished technique that are found in her poems. She was a newspaper correspondent in Spain during that...
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