A founding member of the Algonquin Round Table, Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and worked as a poet, short-story writer, drama critic, and screenwriter. Her poetry collections Enough Rope (Boni and Liveright, 1926) and Sunset Gun (Boni and Liveright, 1928) were bestsellers, and a third collection, Death and Taxes, followed in 1931. She was nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Screenplay, for A Star Is Born (1937) and Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947). Her work appeared regularly in The New Yorker.
