Dorothy Parker (1) (1893–1967)
Autor de The Portable Dorothy Parker [1973 Deluxe Edition]
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Sobre El Autor
Poet and short story writer Dorothy Parker was born in New Jersey on August 22, 1893. When she was 5, her mother died and her father, a clothes salesman, remarried. Parker had a great antipathy toward her stepmother and refused to speak to her. She attended parochial school and Miss Dana's school mostrar más in Morristown, New Jersey, for a brief time before dropping out at age 14. A voracious reader, she decided to pursue a career in literature. She began her career by writing verse as well as captions for a fashion magazine. During the years of her greatest fame, Dorothy Parker was known primarily as a writer of light verse, an essential member of the Algonquin Round Table, and a caustic and witty critic of literature and society. She is remembered now as an almost legendary figure of the 1920s and 1930s. Her reviews and staff contributions to three of the most sophisticated magazines of this century, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, and Esquire, were notable for their put-downs. For all her highbrow wit, however, Dorothy Parker was liberal, even radical, in her political views, and the hard veneer of brittle toughness that she showed to the world was often a shield for frustrated idealism and soft sensibilities. The best of her fiction is marked by a balance of ironic detachment and sympathetic compassion, as in "Big Blonde," which won the O. Henry Award for 1929 and is still her best-remembered and most frequently anthologized story. The best of Dorothy Parker is readily and compactly accessible in The Portable Dorothy Parker. Her own selection of stories and verse for the original edition of that compilation, published in 1944, remains intact in the revised edition, but included also are additional stories, reviews, and articles. Parker died of a heart attack at the age of 73 in 1967. In her will, she bequeathed her estate to the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. foundation. Following King's death, her estate was passed on to the NAACP. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker : Selected Stories (Big Blonde, Too Bad, Song of Shirt, Mr. Durant, Diary of a New York Lady, Standard… (1995) 15 copias
Alpine Giggle Week: How Dorothy Parker Set Out to Write the Great American Novel and Ended Up in a TB Colony Atop an… (2014) 9 copias
Here We Are 6 copias
The Standard of Living 5 copias
Spreekt u maar 3 copias
You Were Perfectly Fine 3 copias
The Indispensable Dorothy Parker 3 copias
New York To Detroit 3 copias
Little Curtis 3 copias
Glory in the Daytime 3 copias
Soldiers of the Republic 3 copias
Arrangement in Black and White 3 copias
The Last Tea 3 copias
Clothe the Naked 3 copias
Comment [poem] 2 copias
From the Diary of a New York Lady 2 copias
Résumé 2 copias
The Algonquin Wits: A Crackling Collection of Bon Mots, Wisecracks, Epigrams and Gags (1968) 2 copias
The Garter (Short Stories) 2 copias
Horsie 2 copias
The Waltz 2 copias
Mrs. Hofstadter on Josephine Street 2 copias
Mr. Durant 2 copias
Too Bad 2 copias
Lady With A Lamp 2 copias
Just a Little One 2 copias
The Little Hours 2 copias
The Wonderful Old Gentleman 2 copias
One Perfect Rose [poem] 2 copias
Sentiment 2 copias
The Lovely Leave 2 copias
The Bolt Behind the Blue 2 copias
Cousin Larry 2 copias
Thomas Carlyle 1 copia
The Searched Soul 1 copia
Bohemia 1 copia
George Gissing 1 copia
Penelope 1 copia
Charles Dickens 1 copia
George Sand 1 copia
Walter Savage Landor 1 copia
Alexandre Dumas and His Son 1 copia
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1 copia
Mortal Enemy 1 copia
Daylight Saving 1 copia
The Trusting Heart 1 copia
A Dream Lies Dead 1 copia
Frustration 1 copia
Story 1 copia
The Whistling Girl 1 copia
Fair Weather 1 copia
Second Love 1 copia
The Homebody 1 copia
Afternoon 1 copia
The Gentlest Lady 1 copia
On Being a Woman 1 copia
Surprise 1 copia
Thought for a Sunshiny Morning 1 copia
Harriet Beecher Stowe 1 copia
Fulfillment 1 copia
The Maid-Servant at the Inn 1 copia
D. G. Rossetti 1 copia
Reuben's Childern 1 copia
Oscar Wilde 1 copia
Experience 1 copia
Symptom Recital 1 copia
Observations 1 copia
Roundel 1 copia
Rondeau Redoublé 1 copia
Lullaby 1 copia
Fighting Words 1 copia
The Choice 1 copia
Pictures in the Smoke 1 copia
Post-Graduate 1 copia
Nocturne 1 copia
Interview 1 copia
Neither Bloody Nor Bowed 1 copia
A Pig's-Eye View of Literature 1 copia
The Burned Child 1 copia
Godmother 1 copia
The Red Dress 1 copia
Victoria 1 copia
To Newcastle 1 copia
Parable for a Certain Virgin 1 copia
Bric-à-Brac 1 copia
Interior 1 copia
On Cheating the Fiddler 1 copia
There Was One 1 copia
Incurable 1 copia
The Second Oldest Story 1 copia
Partial Comfort 1 copia
Heald 1 copia
Landscape 1 copia
The Willow 1 copia
Star Light, Star Bright— 1 copia
The Sea 1 copia
Guinevere at Her Fireside 1 copia
Transition 1 copia
Lines On Reading Too Many Poets 1 copia
From a Letter from Lesbia 1 copia
Ballade of Unfortunate Mammals 1 copia
Sweet Violets 1 copia
Prayer for a New Mother 1 copia
Midnight 1 copia
Ultimatum 1 copia
Summary 1 copia
The Apple Tree 1 copia
Of a Woman, Dead Young 1 copia
Sonnet on an Alpine Night 1 copia
Requiescat 1 copia
Ballade of a Talked-Off Ear 1 copia
Prologue to a Saga 1 copia
Sight 1 copia
Prisoner 1 copia
The Lady's Reward 1 copia
Temps Perdu 1 copia
Autumn Valentine 1 copia
Trade Winds [1938 film] — Screenwriter — 1 copia
Suzy [1936 film] — Screenwriter — 1 copia
Iseult of Brittany 1 copia
Sonnet for the End of a Sequence 1 copia
For a Favorite Granddaughter 1 copia
Prayer for a Prayer 1 copia
Liebestod 1 copia
Dilemma 1 copia
Theory 1 copia
Superfluous Advice 1 copia
A Fairly Sad Tale 1 copia
The Last Question 1 copia
But Not Forgotten 1 copia
Pour Prendre Congé 1 copia
For a Lady Who Must Write Verse 1 copia
Two-Volume Novel 1 copia
Rhyme Against Living 1 copia
Wisdom 1 copia
Coda 1 copia
After Spanish Proverb 1 copia
News Item 1 copia
Distance 1 copia
Sanctuary 1 copia
The Evening Primrose 1 copia
The Flaw in Paganism 1 copia
Salome's Dancing-Lesson 1 copia
Cherry White 1 copia
My Own 1 copia
Solace 1 copia
Little Words 1 copia
Tombstones in the Starlight 1 copia
Garden-Spot 1 copia
Ornithology for Beginners 1 copia
Vers Démodé 1 copia
Song of One of the Girls 1 copia
The Immortals 1 copia
Men 1 copia
Advice to the Little Peyton Girl 1 copia
The Game 1 copia
The Banquet of Crow 1 copia
Interior Desecration 1 copia
Here Comes the Groom 1 copia
Week's End 1 copia
My Home Town 1 copia
Not Enough 1 copia
Destructive Decoration 1 copia
Any Porch 1 copia
Sorry, the Line is Busy 1 copia
In the Throes 1 copia
For R. C. B. 1 copia
The Function of the Writer 1 copia
War Song 1 copia
New York at 6:30 P.M. 1 copia
Self-Portrait 1 copia
Henrik Ibsen: Hedda Gabler 1 copia
Oscar Wilde: An Ideal Husband 1 copia
Leo Tolstoi: Redemption 1 copia
J. M. Barrie: Dear Brutus 1 copia
Kindly Accept Substitutes 1 copia
Just Around Pooh Corner 1 copia
No More Fun 1 copia
An American Du Barry 1 copia
A Book of Great Short Stories 1 copia
Such a Pretty Little Picture 1 copia
Literary Rotarians 1 copia
Una imagen perfecta 1 copia
Song of the Shirt, 1941 1 copia
I Live on Your Visits 1 copia
Lolita 1 copia
But the One on the Right 1 copia
Story {poem} 1 copia
Parker Dorothy 1 copia
Bohemia [poem] 1 copia
The Sayings of Dorothy Parker (Duckworth Sayings Series) by Dorothy Parker (1995-04-06) (1726) 1 copia
Guinevere at Her Fireside" 1 copia
Parker, Dorothy Archive 1 copia
[No title] 1 copia
Big Loira 1 copia
“De Profundis” 1 copia
Dikter 1 copia
Enough Rope - A Book of Light Verse by Dorothy Parker;With the Introductory Essay 'The Jazz Age Literature of the Lost… (2022) 1 copia
Enough Rope Poem 1 copia
Ethereal Mildness 1 copia
Faute de Mieux 1 copia
Ballade of a Great Weariness 1 copia
I Know I Have Been Happiest 1 copia
Testament 1 copia
I Shall Come Back 1 copia
Condolence 1 copia
A Portrait 1 copia
Portrait of the Artist 1 copia
Chant for Dark Hours 1 copia
Unfortunate Coincidence 1 copia
Inventory 1 copia
Now at Liberty 1 copia
Plea 1 copia
Pattern 1 copia
De Profundis 1 copia
They Party 1 copia
L'Envoi 1 copia
August 1 copia
Renunciation 1 copia
The Veteran 1 copia
Verse for a Certain Dog 1 copia
Prophetic Soul 1 copia
Godspeed 1 copia
Song of Perfect Propriety 1 copia
Social Note 1 copia
Ballade at Thirty-Five 1 copia
The Thin Edge 1 copia
Love Song 1 copia
Philosophy 1 copia
For an Unknown Lady 1 copia
The Leal 1 copia
The White Lady 1 copia
The Dramatists 1 copia
Hero Worship 1 copia
The Dark Girl's Rhyme 1 copia
Home is the Sailor 1 copia
Oh, Look—A Good Book! 1 copia
Words, Words, Words 1 copia
Edmund Wilson: The American Earthquake; Jack Kerouac: The Subterraneans; Edna Ferber: Ice Palace 1 copia
Threnody 1 copia
The Small Hours 1 copia
The False Friends 1 copia
The Trifler 1 copia
A Well-Worn Story 1 copia
Convalescent 1 copia
Epitaph 1 copia
Story of Mrs. W— 1 copia
Light of Love 1 copia
Wail 1 copia
The Satin Dress 1 copia
Somebody's Song 1 copia
Braggart 1 copia
Epitaph for a Darling Lady 1 copia
To a Much Too Unfortunate Lady 1 copia
Paths 1 copia
Hearthside 1 copia
Rainy Night 1 copia
The New Love 1 copia
Anecdote 1 copia
For a Sad Lady 1 copia
Recurrence 1 copia
A Very Short Song 1 copia
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American Poetry: The Twentieth Century, Volume One: Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker (2000) — Contribuidor — 438 copias
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Poetry Speaks Expanded: Hear Poets Read Their Own Work from Tennyson to Plath (2007) — Contribuidor — 151 copias
The Vicious Circle: Mystery and Crime Stories by Members of the Algonquin Round Table (2007) — Contribuidor — 87 copias
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contribuidor — 83 copias
Out of the Best Books: An Anthology of Literature, Vol. 3: Intelligent Family Living (1967) — Contribuidor — 33 copias
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Contribuidor — 13 copias
Great American Short Stories: O. Henry Memorial Prize Winning Stories, 1919-1934 (1935) — Contribuidor — 10 copias
The Best Short Stories of 1931 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story (1931) — Contribuidor — 7 copias
Our lives : American labor stories — Contribuidor — 6 copias
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970, Volume II (1970) — Contribuidor — 5 copias
The Best from Cosmopolitan — Contribuidor — 4 copias
Wives and Lovers — Contribuidor — 3 copias
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Schöne Ferien — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Parker, Dorothy
- Nombre legal
- Rothschild, Dorothy (birth name)
- Otros nombres
- Dot
Dottie - Fecha de nacimiento
- 1893-08-22
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1967-06-07
- Lugar de sepultura
- NAACP Headquarters, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Long Branch, New Jersey, USA
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- New York, New York, USA
- Causa de fallecimiento
- heart attack
- Lugares de residencia
- Morristown, New Jersey, USA
Hollywood, California, USA
New York, New York, USA - Educación
- convent
- Ocupaciones
- journalist
writer
satirist
drama critic
screenwriter
poet (mostrar todos 8)
short story writer
columnist - Relaciones
- Rothschild, Martin (uncle)
Campbell, Alan (husband)
Hellman, Lillian (friend, executor) - Organizaciones
- Algonquin Round Table
Vogue
Vanity Fair
The New Yorker
Paramount Pictures - Premios y honores
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1959)
O. Henry Award (1929)
New Jersey Hall of Fame (2014) - Biografía breve
- Dorothy Parker, née Rothschild, was born in the West End section of Long Branch, New Jersey, to J. Henry and Elizabeth Rothschild. Her mother died when she was four years old. She attended a Catholic grammar school and a finishing school in Morristown, NJ, and her formal education ended when she was 14.
In 1914, she sold her first poem to Vanity Fair. At age 22, she took an editorial job at Vogue, and continued to write poems for newspapers and magazines. In 1917, she joined Vanity Fair. That same year, she married Edwin P. Parker, a stockbroker, but they divorced in 1928.
S In 1919, she became a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table, the informal gathering of writers who lunched at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City. In 1922, Parker published her first short story and over the years, she contributed poetry, fiction and book reviews as the "Constant Reader" columnist.
In 1934, Parker married actor-writer Alan Campbell and the couple relocated to Los Angeles. They divorced in 1947, and remarried in 1950, but their relationship deteriorated.
She was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1959 and was a visiting professor at California State College in Los Angeles in 1963. She returned to Manhattan and lived in the Volney Hotel on the Upper East Side for the last 15 years of her life.
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Los años fueron pasando, y el tiempo ha revelado que esta protagonista indiscutible de las tertulias más animadas del Nueva York de entreguerras, esposa infiel y amante solícita fue además una escritora de primer orden, capaz de resumir en pocas páginas la hipocresía de una sociedad que crecía a la sombra de un dinero recién estrenado y de unas costumbres que se caían de viejas. Así lo muestran las mujeres y los hombres que deambulan por sus cuentos, seres patéticos que lloran en habitaciones exquisitamente decoradas, flirtean con un empeño digno de mejores causas, o ríen sin ganas en la barra de un bar para olvidar que alguna vez fueron felices. Es más, basta con acercarnos un poco a esas parejas desesperadas y tiernas para darnos cuenta de que la prosa de Dorothy Parker no ha muerto. Al contrario, su protesta es más actual que nunca, su sonrisa aún nos acompaña, su amor por Nueva York cala hondo, y su ironía es el mejor de los regalos en una época de tanta perplejidad.
La crítica ha dicho:
«Un acontecimiento literario para aquellos lectores españoles capaces de disfrutar sentándose a leer un buen cuento (sé que son muchos y muy exigentes y, helas, rara vez bien servidos). [...] Dorothy Parker percibió como ninguna otra escritora antes el poder letal del engaño, de la mentira, de las palabras que no dicen lo que dicen y lo contó, con humor y sarcasmo en su juventud, con dolor y compasión en su madurez.»
Ana Becciu, Babelia
«El alcohol está tan presente en los relatos que una tiene la impresión de acabar intoxicada tras la lectura de algunos de ellos; pocos escritores han narrado con tal maestría la progresión del efecto de las copas en un diálogo. [...] Parker define un Nueva York ya extinguido que de vez en cuando revive fantasmal en la barra de algunos bares.»
Elvira Lindo, El País
«La escritora neoyorquina por antonomasia, la primera mujer en contar, con ironía y refinamiento, la vida de esa ciudad que se iba convirtiendo en la capital del mundo, [...] cuyo ingenio, sarcasmo y humor cáustico no perdonaban a nada ni a nadie.»
Lourdes Ventura, El Cultural
«La mordaz reina de los intelectuales y el ingenio sofisticado tenía una pulsión tanática que jamás escondió en su obra. Muchos de sus relatos albergan pistas de esa desesperanza íntima y ese anhelo de muerte: [...] Parker no solo está radiografiando a una sociedad sin rumbo, sino a su infierno personal, también en entreguerras.»
Bárbara Ayuso, Jot Down
«Se las arregló para expresar sus sentimientos más auténticos en párrafos que se rompen en pedazos y a la vez brillan como un bolso de Chanel.»
Peter Ackroyd,The Times
«Tanto en sus escritos como en persona, la señorita Parker brillaba con una palabra o una frase. [...] Su ingenio era aguzado como un estoque.»
Alden Whitman, The New York Times
«La posterioridad ha obrado en favor de una autora que, al menos en lo que a la sensibilidad femenina se refiere, fue una auténtica visionaria.»
El Mundo
«Los cuentos de Dorothy Parker no caducan nunca.»
Lluís Moral, Cataluña Radio… (más)