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Dorothy Parker

1893–1967

SOURCE A Dorothy Parker in 1928

Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild) was a poet and writer. She is most often associated with Prohibition New York in the 1920s, but she went on writing into the 1960s.

Dorothy had a difficult childhood — her mother died when she was four, her stepmother when she was ten, and her father, after a long illness through which Dorothy had to nurse him, in 1913.

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