The Portable Dorothy Parker

By Dorothy Parker; Marion Meade; Marion Meade (Illustrator)
(Penguin Classics, Paperback, 9780143039532, 640pp.)

Publication Date: April 2006

Categories: American - General, American - General

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Description

The second revision in sixty years, this sublime collection ranges over the verse, stories, essays, and journalism of one of the twentieth century's most quotable authors.




About the Author

Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) wrote at various times in her life for Vogue, Vanity Fair, and the New Yorker and was a key member of the famed New York literary circle, the Algonquin Round Table.

Marion Meade is the author of Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? as well as biographies of Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, and Madame Blavatsky.

Seth is an illustrator whose work has been featured in such publications as the Washington Post, Details, Spin, and the New York Times. He is best known for his continuing comic-book series Palooka-Ville.

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