Resumé
Dorothy Parker, “Resumé” from The Portable Dorothy Parker, edited by Brendan Gill. Copyright 1926, 1928 and renewed 1954, © 1956 by Dorothy Parker. Reprinted with the permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
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Poet Dorothy Parker 1893–1967
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
Subjects Living, Humor & Satire, Arts & Sciences, Death
Biography
Dorothy Parker’s biting wit made her a legend, but it also masked her lonely struggle with depression. A member of the Algonquin Round Table group of writers, she wrote criticism for Vogue, Vanity Fair, and later the New Yorker. During the 1930s Parker moved to Hollywood, where she worked on such films as A Star Is Born, for which she won an Academy Award.
Poems by Dorothy Parker
Poem Categorization
SUBJECT Living, Humor & Satire, Arts & Sciences, Death
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
Poetic Terms Epigram, Aphorism
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