ABOUT THIS EPISODE
She’s famous for her caustic quips and her love of cocktails, but there was a lot more to Dorothy Parker than her time at the famed Algonquin Round Table. The icon of New York in the 1920s spent decades in Hollywood as a screenwriter, won awards for her short stories and was a committed social activist, who ended up being blacklisted because of her ties to communist causes. She was also a war correspondent.
Guests in this episode:
Kevin Fitzpatrick is the founder and president of the Dorothy Parker Society.
Michelle Dean is a screenwriter, critic and author of Sharp! The Women who made an Art of Having an Opinion.
Nina Miller is a former English professor at Iowa State University, and the author of Making Love Modern: The Intimate Public Worlds of New York's Literary Women.
Ellen Meister is a novelist and the author of Dorothy Parker Drank Here and Farewell, Dorothy Parker.
Gail Crowther is a researcher, writer and the author of Dorothy Parker in Hollywood.
