Dorothy Parker
by:
Marion Meade (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780749391560 (0749391561)
Publish date: June 6th 1991
Publisher: Minerva
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
American,
Biography Memoir,
Poetry,
United States,
Womens
This book reminds me of several others I've read about famous women - they're really good with the history, the details, the research, and well written - but because of the detail you know that this woman was NOT an easy person to really know, to befriend, or to be in the same room with. It's not ju...
An excellent, detailed but not *too* detailed, thoroughly engrossing biography of Parker. If you like Parker, which I really do.
I read Parker voraciously in college. Her biography, as I recall, saddened me a bit.