Dorothy Parker
Noun
Meaning
United States writer noted for her sharp wit (1893-1967)
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American Poetry: The Twentieth Century: Volume One, Henry Adams to Dorothy Parker (The Library of America).
Dorothy Parker 's one-liners can be considered epigrams, as can Macdonald Carey 's statement, "like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives".
Dorothy Parker, a writer, is often credited with saying, “I once was the toast between two continents: Greenland and Australia.”
Parker appears as a character in the novel The Dorothy Parker Murder Case by George Baxt (1984), in a series of "Algonquin Round Table Mysteries" by J.J. Murphy (2011– ), and in Ellen Meister's novel Farewell, Dorothy Parker (2013).
The plaque reads, Here lie the ashes of Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) humorist, writer, critic.
Her catchphrase is "Dorothy Parker smash!"