Her reviews are not contemptuous, a common pitfall for her imitators. They are simply unbridled in their dislike.

You can’t judge a book by its cover, but sometimes you can judge a writer’s standing by it. My 1990s-era paperback edition of “The Portable Dorothy Parker” shows the poet, critic, playwright and ...

Native New Yorker, Dorothy Parker, did not like movies. She did not like Hollywood. And she really did not like the people ...

Less known is her work for the movie industry, Gail Crowther’s focus in DOROTHY PARKER IN HOLLYWOOD (Gallery Books, 291 pp., $29.99). Parker’s copious if frequently forgotten credits include ...

We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. If Dorothy Parker was going to live anywhere upon her return to Hollywood, of course it was going to be the Garden of Allah.

Jeopardy! fans seemingly all had an opinion about that controversial clue from last week, which came off as “sexist” to some ...

Dorothy Parker was one of the great transients of ... for evaluation in our own screen-obsessed age. Ms. Crowther is the ...

A conversation with John Nathan, a biographer of Yukio Mishima, who translated the story “From the Wilderness” in this week’s ...

Although best known for her Manhattan literary circle, Parker also found fame and fortune as a Hollywood writer. Bettmann Archive As Gail Crowther puts it in her revealing new book “Dorothy ...

If Dorothy Parker was going to live anywhere upon her return to Hollywood, of course it was going to be the Garden of Allah. Partly because that’s where everybody went to live who was in transit ...

Dorothy Parker was one of the great transients of American literary history, yet she remains more permanent than most writers ...