Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker is my kind of dangerous wit. A New Jersey native who became the sharp center of New York's Algonquin Round Table, she could dismantle a room with a single line. That kind of edge isn't cleverness alone, it's nerve, and for a woman born in 1893 to be so unapologetically cutting took real spine. Poet, critic, screenwriter, and an O. Henry Award winner besides, she was loved for her bite rather than her warmth, which is precisely what makes her irresistible to me. Drop her into today's internet and she'd be a legend by lunchtime.

Name (English)

Dorothy Parker

Name (Japanese)

ドロシー・パーカー

Reading

どろしー・ぱーかー

Born

August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Snake

Origin

West End, New Jersey, United States

Occupation

columnist / poet / screenwriter / writer / literary critic

Awards & achievements

• 1929 O. Henry Award
• 2014 New Jersey Hall of Fame

• Official sitehttps://dorothyparker.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy%20Parker
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%89%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%91%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q270707

Tags

• New Jersey
• columnist
• poet
• screenwriter

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.