Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Rothschild was born in 1893 in Long Branch, New Jersey, and grew up in Manhattan. Her mother died when she was a small child. After her father's death she played piano at a dancing school and then sold poems to Vanity Fair magazine and went to work for Vogue. In 1917 she married Edwin Pond Parker II. As a drama critic at Vanity Fair, she joined a group of writers and wits who met for lunch at the Algonquin Hotel in New York, known as the Algonquin Round Table. Her short, clever poems were collected in Enough Rope (1926), a bestseller, and later books. Her short story Big Blonde won the O. Henry Award in 1929. She also wrote reviews for The New Yorker and, with her second husband Alan Campbell, film screenplays in Hollywood, sharing an Academy Award nomination for A Star Is Born. She was active in civil rights causes and left her estate to Martin Luther King Jr. She died in New York in 1967.

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Faith: Faith not well documented; she attended a Catholic school as a child. Source: Wikipedia