Dorothy Parker Audio Books

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) is a literary legend famed for her poetry, short stories, criticism, screenplays, and dramas. She was a founding writer of the New Yorker and also wrote for Vogue, Vanity Fair, and Esquire. A key member of the New York literary circle, the Algonquin Round Table, she was widely known as the wittiest woman in America. Not so well known are her political beliefs: she helped unionize Hollywood screenwriters, joined the Communist Party, and worked on behalf of various left-wing causes. In the 1950s, she was blacklisted in Hollywood. Her estate was bequeathed to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She is buried in Baltimore, at the headquarters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which became her literary executor following Dr. King’s assassination. Today, four decades after her death, Dorothy Parker remains one of the most quoted writers in the world.

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Extended Sample Sunset Gun - Poems by Dorothy Parker - Unabridged by Dorothy Parker
Extended Sample The Dorothy Parker Reader - Enough Rope, Men I'm Not Married To and Sunset Gun - Unabridged by Dorothy Parker
Extended Sample Men I'm Not Married To and Women I'm Not Married To - Unabridged by Dorothy Parker
Extended Sample Dorothy Parker's Men I'm Not Married To - Unabridged by Dorothy Parker
Extended Sample Enough Rope - Poems - Unabridged by Dorothy Parker
Extended Sample Parker: Selected Stories by Dorothy Parker
Extended Sample Women’s Short Stories, Vol. 4 by Kate Chopin
Extended Sample Selected Readings from The Portable Dorothy Parker by Dorothy Parker
Extended Sample The Dorothy Parker Audio Collection by Dorothy Parker
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