The late Mrs. Dorothy Parker
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-328) and index.

The first full-scale biography of Dorothy Parker, known above all for her satiric wit and now perceived as one of the most gifted writers of her time. Poet, critic, playwright--no one epitomized the Jazz Age and its contradictions as she did. Flippant, fast, funny, a flouter of convention, Dorothy Parker was a romantic and a sentimentalist. In the words of Brendan Gill, she was "one of the wittiest people in the world and one of the saddest." Leslie Frewin has produced an enormously readable portrait of one of the original liberated women who, paradoxically, could never be free of self-doubt. During more than fifteen years of research, he interviewed some sixty of Dorothy Parker's friends, enemies, and intimates, including Sheilah Graham, Sam Marx, David Niven, Merle Oberon, Donald Ogden Stewart, and Mrs. Parker's long-time ally Lillian Hellman. --Adapted from book jacket.