![]() ![]() ![]() Over the years, she contributed poetry, fiction, and book reviews as the “Constant Reader.” When the New Yorker debuted in 1925, Parker was listed on the editorial board. In 1922, Parker published her first short story, “Such a Pretty Little Picture,” for Smart Set. Kaufman, and Edna Ferber, and was known for its scathing wit and intellectual commentary. The “Vicious Circle” included Robert Benchley, Harpo Marx, George S. In 1919, Parker became a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table, an informal gathering of writers who lunched at the Algonquin Hotel in Midtown Manhattan. But the marriage was tempestuous, and the couple divorced in 1928. That same year she married a stockbroker, Edwin P. ![]() She continued to write poems for newspapers and magazines, and in 1917 she joined Vanity Fair, taking over for P.G. At age twenty-two, she took an editorial job at Vogue. In 1914, Dorothy sold her first poem to Vanity Fair. Her formal education abruptly ended when she was fourteen. ![]() Young Dorothy attended a Catholic grammar school, then a finishing school in Morristown, NJ. Both her mother and stepmother died when she was young her uncle, Martin Rothschild, went down on the Titanic in 1912 and her father died the following year. Growing up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, her childhood was an unhappy one. Henry and Elizabeth Rothschild, at their summer home in West End, New Jersey. On August 22, 1893, Dorothy Parker was born to J. ![]()
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