You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker

“Once upon a time –just after World War I to be precise– the world was bright and new, and Dorothy Parker was one of the brightest and newest people in it.” So begins this biography of one of the wittiest American writers of her era by John Keats. It is an intriguing story, sad in many ways, but never less than interesting. Parker is still read widely all these years after her heyday, and she is remembered as a leading figure at the famous Round Table lunches at the Algonquin Hotel in New York.
The book first appeared in Britain in 1971 when published by Secker & Warburg.