Dorothy Parker

(1893-1967)

American modernist poet and short story writer.


Author's life and works

Parker, Dorothy, 1893-1967 from Literature Online biography

"Dorothy Parker" from Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 86: American Short-Story Writers, 1910-1945, 1989


"The Waltz" (1930)

"Extracts of critical articles on “The Waltz” from Modern American Poetry


General criticism (1930)

"Making Love Modern: Dorothy Parker and Her Public" by Nina Miller, from
American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 763-84, December 1992

“Being and Dying as a Woman in the Short Fiction of Dorothy Parker” in (book): Performing gender and comedy: theories, texts and contexts, edited by Shannon Hengen. Amsterdam: Gordon and Breach, 1998.
Found at UB, UiTø


Links

"Dorothy Parker" at Modern American Poetry

"Dorothy Parker's New York

"Celebrity, Femininity, Lingerie: Dorothy Parker's Autobiographical Monologues" By K. Helal, from Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 77-102, Winter 2004