The Dorothy Parker Page

( 1893-1967 )

Guns aren't lawful
Nooses give;
Gas smells awful
You might as well live
Major Works
See The Portable Dorothy Parker. With an introduction by Brendan Gill. Penguin, 1976; and The Complete Stories. Edited by Coleen Breese with an introduction by Regina Barreca. Penguin, 1995.

Poems
Enough Rope ( 1926 ).
Sunset Gun ( 1928 ).
Death and Taxes ( 1931 ).
Not So Deep as a Well ( 1936 ). Collected poems.

Short Stories
Laments for the Living ( 1930 ).
After Such Pleasures ( 1933 ).
Here Lies ( 1939 ). Collected stories.

Plays. All collaborations.
Close Harmony ( 1924, with Elmer Rice ).
The Coast of Illyria ( 1949, with Ross Evans ).
The Ladies of the Corridor ( 1953, with Arnaud d'Usseau ).

Articles and Reviews
The Portable DP ( See above ) prints a number of her articles and wonderful reviews.
Constant Reader ( 1970 ).


About Parker
John Keats, You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker. Simon and Schuster, 1970.
Arthur F. Kinney, Dorothy Parker. Twayne, 1978.
Marion Meade, Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell is This ?. Penguin, 1987.
A Dorothy Parker Page. Quotations, poems.
Parker in Internet Movie Database
Review of Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker

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