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Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and writer of fiction, plays and screenplays based in New York; she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
Dorothy Parker returned it to the context of suicide so prevalent in A Shropshire Lad, and included it under the title "Cherry White" in her collected poems, Not So Deep as a Well (1936): I never see that prettiest thing—
Dorothy Parker divorces Alan ... Canada: Governor General's Award, poetry or drama: Poems for People, Dorothy ... English poet (suicide by hanging) June 25 ...
Read more:Dorothy Parker's Life of Counterpoints The contestant agreed with Jennings' assessment of the famed poet's 20th-century observation, replying, "very." Wallace's fellow competitor, health ...
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June 7 – Dorothy Parker, 73 (born 1893), American writer and poet known for her caustic wit, of heart failure; June 23 – Sakae Tsuboi 壺井栄 (born 1899), novelist and poet; July 1 – Chen Xiaocui, 64 (born 1902), Chinese poet, fiction writer, translator and painter, suicide
Caresse Crosby edited and published Crosby's diaries and papers. She wrote and published Poems for Harry Crosby in 1931. She also published and translated some of the works of Hemingway, Faulkner, and Dorothy Parker, among others. The Black Sun Press enjoyed the greatest longevity among the several expatriate presses founded in Paris during the ...
July 19 – Vladimir Mayakovsky (suicide 1930), Russian poet and playwright; July 26 – George Grosz (died 1959), German artist and poet; August 22 – Dorothy Parker (died 1967), American writer, poet and wit; September 6 or 16 – Robert Nichols (died 1944), English war poet; September 28 – Giannis Skarimpas (died 1984), Greek