biography
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Parker, Dorothy
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née Rothschild
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| female
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| lived:
| (1893–1967)
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| biography:
| Journalist and short-story writer, born in West End, New Jersey, USA. Educated at a convent, in 1916 she sold some of her poetry to the editor of Vogue, and was given an editorial position on the magazine. She became drama critic of Vanity Fair (1917–20), and was at her most trenchant in book reviews and stories in the early issues (1927–33) of the The New Yorker, a magazine whose character she did much to form. Her work continued to appear in the magazine at irregular intervals until 1955. Her reviews were collected in A Month of Saturdays (1971). She also wrote for Esquire, and published poems and sketches. Her poems appeared in Not So Deep as a Well (1936) and Enough Rope (1926), which became a best seller. Her short stories were collected in Here Lies (1939). |
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