In this lively, absorbing biography, Marion Meade illuminates both the charm and the dark side of Dorothy Parker, exploring her days of wicked wittiness at the Algonquin Round Table with the likes of Robert Benchley, George Kaufman, and Harold Ross, and in Hollywood with S. J. Perelman, William Faulkner, and Lillian Hellman. At the dazzling center of it all, Meade gives us the flamboyant, self-destructive, and brilliant Dorothy Parker.
Introduction - THE ALGONQUIN HOTEL: Summer 1927
Chapter 1. THE EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE TRAGEDY
Chapter 5. THE ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE
Chapter 7. LAUGHTER AND HOPE AND A SOCK IN THE EYE
Chapter 8. “YESSIR, THE WHADDYECALL’EM BLUES”
Chapter 11. SONNETS IN SUICIDE, OR THE LIFE OF JOHN KNOX
Chapter 12. YOU MIGHT AS WELL LIVE
Chapter 17. HIGH-FORCEPS DELIVERIES
Chapter 18. HAM AND CHEESE, HOLD THE MAYO
Chapter 19. LADY OF THE CORRIDOR