Dorothy Parker

She was a woman who didn’t mince words so neither will I, this biography was boring as fuck.......more

This was OK, I guess. It was quite interesting finding out what sort of person Dorothy Parker was and where she was from, and it was well-written enough. But the writer's magaziney style grated sometimes. And a lot of the time she just seemed to be making stuff up! I don't think the main character o......more

Like most books, biographies rarely live up to the hyperbole of their promotional material. Titles labeled as the “definitive account” often prove to be anything but, while the “stirring prose” of others sometimes requires a spoon made from ironwood to move. Yet the description of Marion Meade’s boo......more

I know so many women today who would feel right at home with Dorothy Parker but have probably never heard of her. This book is a respectable (perhaps too much so) biography of one of America's greatest women of letters. Deeply flawed in many ways, from her alcoholism to her choices in men, Parker ma......more