The Late Mrs. Dorothy Parker

1986 Macmillan hardcover, Leslie Frewin (Dietrich: The Story of a Star). Dorothy Parker, the “Guinevere of the legendary Algonquin Round Table,” lived at the center of American intellectual life from the mid-1910s to the 1950s. Peppered with Parker’s quips and verses, Frewin’s book pulls together biographical details and the impressions of her contemporaries to portray the “surface gaiety and hidden misery” of Parker’s life and times.