Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? a Biography
by:
Marion Meade (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781417703036 (1417703032)
Publish date: March 3rd 1989
Publisher: Turtleback Books
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.