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Dorothy Parker

(August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967 / New Jersey)

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born in West End, New Jersey, as the fourth and last child of Jacob (Henry) Rothschild, a garment manufacturer, and Annie Eliza (Marston) Rothschild, the daughter of a machinist at Phoenix Armour. Parker's mother died in 1898. Jacob married in 1900 Eleanor Frances Lewis, a Roman Catholic; Parker never liked her stepmother. Eleanor Frances died three years after the wedding. Parker's father died when she was twenty. more >>

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''Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.''

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), U.S. humorous writer. Interview in Writers at Work, First Series, ed. Malcolm Cowley (1958).

''Gratitude—the meanest and most snivelling attribute in the world.''

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967), U.S. humorous writer. Interview in Writers at Work, First Series, ed. Malcolm Cowley (1958).

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Fred Babbin (12/9/2009 1:05:00 PM)

Dorothy Parker rings my bell - too loud and too clear.

p.a. noushad (7/11/2008 4:51:00 AM)

beautiful is your creation.

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