50. Dorothy Parker: In Her Own Words by Barry Day

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50. Dorothy Parker: In Her Own Words by Barry Day

So this editor guy has a series of “In Their Own Words”  bios where he writes about authors and using their writings to write his bios. Get it?

This was a short biography of Dorothy Parker, but I liked it because it quoted a lot of her work in it. It was an interesting idea to take her works and psychoanalyze them a bit to come up with a biography. Although it would be hard to tell how close to accurate the author was. Ms. Parker never wrote an autobiography and not much is written about her, and it seems that when people would ask her personal questions she never answered them the same way twice… so there you go. She certainly didn’t make it easy for someone to write a bio in the first place.

Still, the book seemed to lack actual substance, but I think it’s a good start if you were interested in Dorothy Parker. Start with this book and let it whet your appetite for more.

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