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Since this is an article about Parker, I think the extended bit about how she boosted Ellison's career with a favorable review should go in an article about Ellison. 11 Arlington --( talk) 17:50, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
I really don't think anyone should add bio info to this article unless you've read Marion Meade's bio. Because bad info keeps cropping up. -- k72ndst 04:16, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
If anyone is interested, I can kick in more about Mrs. Parker in Hollywood. She did spend about 30 years on and off there. And was nominated for two Oscars. It seems that the entry here pretty much glosses over her time in LA. That's a shame, since she did help found the Writers Guild. -- k72ndst 11:36, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Are you sure about "Friend of Dorothy". I thought that was a Wizard of Oz / Judy Garland reference -- User:GWO
I've read an anthology of Mrs. Parker's book reviews under the name "Constant Reader"; the "thrown with great force" line is from a review of a memoir by Margot Asquith and should read "This is not a book to be. . . ."
friend of dorothy dates to the 1880s and is not about judy garland. but i can't find an online reference.
Does anyone know a source for this? I've read a lot about Mrs. Parker without running across this form of the name. (She was called Dottie sometimes, however.) RivGuySC 05:11, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
I just removed two out-of-place analyses of "Big Blonde", one of them as follows:
A less broad analysis might be in order: that the story examined only one niche in which aging women of the time found themselves, and if anything the Big Blonde and her female cohorts have given up on a search for the perfect life, the Big Blonde herself happily embracing suicide as an alternative to her grating lifestyle. — 68.62.17.196 04:25, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
For reference— I checked my copy of the OED (2nd ed.); neither of these words is attributed to Parker or mentions her, unfortunately. 'One-night stand' dates back to 1896 with a theatrical reference; the first cite for 'wisecrack' is from a 1915 San Francisco periodical. Zompist 08:53, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
Dorothy was a no-nonsense critic. She once said of a novel that failed to inspire her: "This is not a book to cast aside lightly, it should be hurled with great force." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.177.241.130 ( talk) 09:31, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
"If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised."
I added the Memorable Quotes section. I may add some more if they come to mind. SmokeyTheCat 15:59, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
I don't see why anyone would object to some quotes here. They give a flavour to the subject. Other entries in Wiki have selected quotes. But I won't revert. SmokeyTheCat 20:19, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Parker's spontaneous combustion joke is almost certainly apocryphal, since it would make no sense at all to a teacher or student at a Catholic school. Instead, the humor is predicated on a rather common and silly misunderstanding of what the immaculate conception is, and would garner a chuckle only from such an ignorant audience. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobby Lawndale ( talk • contribs) 14:04, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
Mentions of Dorothy Parker in popular songs should be included under influences in popular culture (like the Prince song). She has been included in pop songs going all the way back to Cole Porter. So to the person who keeps deleting these reference to her, please stop doing this. If you would take the few minutes to listen to these songs -- before editing the article -- you would see these are valid for inclusion. -- K72ndst 19:03, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
This device is known for usage in literature, especially in poetry, where with few words, emotions and associations from one context are associated with objects and entities in a different context.
The sub-heading is Parker's influence "in popular culture" and that is what this refers to. Just because you don't like (a) the music; (b) the analogy; does not mean that (c) you chop it out. What the songwriter is doing is taking her essence and transferring it -- a metaphor. This is a clever usage of a common figure of speech. -- K72ndst 03:39, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
The real Dorothy Parker was definitely an inspiration for Prince's song. His song talks about how witty the waitress was ("I needed someone with a quicker wit than mine. Dorothy was fast"). Also note, Dorothy Parker died on Prince's birthday in 1967. He was well read and paid close attention to things like this. Dmsr89 ( talk) 22:01, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
I added the external link to the Dorothy Parker Society (dorothyparker.com) and it keeps being deleted. An anonymous user keeps telling me that there cannot be a link since it isn't official. However, I would like your opinion. I run the site and wrote the book A Journey into Dorothy Parker's New York. This is a literary society. We pay royalties to the estate (the NAACP). The site has numerous Parker photos, stories, audio files, and news. What is your two cents? I would like to have this link returned. There are numerous great Wikipedians that watch the Dorothy Parker article, I would invite you to look at dorothyparker.com and decide. Thanks. -- K72ndst 05:11, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
I saw that the link had been removed from the infobox as nonexistent; investigating, I saw that the problem was that it's not a "www," just a plain "https." However, this DPS site was also linked down below under External Links--but as an archive. So I replaced the Wayback version with the live version down in External. I did not add it back to the infobox, since this is not really Parker's own site but a third-party site. Jcejhay ( talk)
Now, sixteen years later, the website dorothyparker.com isn't working -- though of course this may only be temporary. -- Hoary ( talk) 06:00, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
Would it be worth adding a line that says:
Otherwise helpful editors will keep adding it. - Will Beback · † · 08:15, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
I agree with the Wiki person who added this to the article. Having TV producer Amy Sherman-Palladino name her production company Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions is a worthy addition to the References in Popular Culture section of this article. It may not be the most significant part of Parker’s legacy, but it is valuable. For seven years (plus more in syndication), the closing credits of The Gilmore Girls featured the name Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions, which, in turn, sent untold numbers of viewers to the Web to search for just who the heck Dorothy Parker was. Millions of viewers were exposed to this over the years. Many may have come to this very article. Others may pick up Parker books. The fact that the show’s creator Amy Sherman-Palladino also had Rory Gilmore be a Parker fan, and read her work on TV and have her poster on her wall, also helped Parker’s legacy. -- K72ndst 18:32, 18 May 2007 (UTC) And the logo features a picture of a lady who has her back turned and is sitting and holding a cigarrette behind her back and is holding a martini glass. and next to the lady when the smoke grows DOROTHY PARKER DRANK HERE and P R O D U C T I O N S surrounded by two lines appear.
Everyone in the Author infobox I list under "influences" is stated in Marion Meade's biography Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? and for "influenced" these are writers who have said over the years that Parker was a major influence. K72ndst 01:01, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
Wow, a project of depth, thought and lasting impact! Most cool, I'm in! Chris 06:09, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm moving this information out of the article. I'm trying to get this article up to GA or FA status and a trivia section is a bar to that goal. I've integrated a good chunk of it into the article already but this remainder doesn't fit anywhere.
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I have re-added these. Please don't delete them without discussion as it was agreed above that would be a useful contribution to the article. SmokeyTheCat •TALK• 10:40, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
After being expelled from Randolph Hearst's castle for fornication Dorothy Parker wrote in the visitors book (in reference to his mistress);
Upon my honour
I saw the Madonna,
Standing in a niche,
Above the door,
Of a wellknown whore,
And a first class sonofabitch, page 274 Bring on the Empty Horses, David Niven
why is there no mention of her founding the Screen Actor's Guild with Lillian Hellman?
The article states that Parker was asked to leave her school for calling the dogma of the immaculate conception "spontaneous combustion." This seems to be referenced although I don't have access to the cited book. However, it doesn't really make sense. Immaculate conception refers to Mary being without sin (every other person since the fall has original sin according to Catholic docrine), I'm not sure how "spontaneous combustion" is a good metaphor for this. It would be an amusing metaphor for the dogma of the Virgin Birth of Jesus though. The two are often confused by non-catholics. I could be wrong about this, Parker may well have said it, but i think the source needs to be double checked. Grcaldwell ( talk) 11:19, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Also "Parker survived three marriages (two to the same man) and several suicide attempts" is an amusing but unencyclopedic zeugma. Is a marriage something that one would not be expected to survive? It may be Parkerian in style (perhaps she said something similar, I wouldn't know). but it's not good style for here. Grcaldwell ( talk) 11:44, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
That is not the correct photo of Dorothy Parker. I know the LOC has it labeled as Parker, but that is a pianist from the early 20th Century, not the author. It is a common mistake that happens all the time with this same image. This photo is pre-1917 when Dorothy was still Dorothy Rothschild. Also, just compare the nose and eyes to the book covers. -- -- K72ndst ( talk) 00:35, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
The current edit says that DP's career at Vanity Fair took off in 1921, but she was terminated in 1920 after she was already popular. This seems false, but if it's true could it be clarified by someone who knows the qualifications that would make sense of it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.150.231.90 ( talk) 17:05, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
Business is Business was a 1925 silent movie, not a play, as has been recorded here: "In 1924, Parker collaborated with fellow Algonquinite George S. Kaufman on a one-act play, Business is Business." The book Dorothy Parker: A Bio-Bibliography by Randall Calhoun has a list of her screenplay and play credits. K72ndst ( talk) 17:52, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
"..and her father was of German Jewish descent (but not related to the Rothschild banking dynasty" How could he not be related? The Rothschild name was adopted by the banking dynasty for the Red Banner (or Shield) that marked the shop of Amschel Mayer Bauer in the Judenstrass 173.176.120.156 ( talk) 07:08, 21 January 2014 (UTC).
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Parker was claimed to be a patron of Polly Adler's bordello or brothel in New York.
I was very confused by a sentence talking about how acerbic Parker's reviews were, and then an awkwardly inserted quote on A A Milne. I couldn't understand what her quote actually means, but it's strongly implied that she was acerbic toward Milne, which doesn't seem correct. Thujone33 ( talk) 19:12, 21 October 2017 (UTC)Thujone33 21 October 2017
In her will, she bequeathed her estate to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Following King's death, her estate was passed on to the NAACP. Her executor, Lillian Hellman, bitterly but unsuccessfully contested this disposition.
"Her mother died in West End in July 1898..." Where is West End?
Only three Portable series—Parker's, William Shakespeare's, and The Bible—have remained in continuous print.
Seriously? The citation is just to the publisher's notes of the Portable Dorothy which dates to 1976 in the citations.The publisher is not a reliable source for such a bold claim. There are numerous portable series books that are being sold today and have been sold for some time. Contentcreator ( talk)
Parker has half-Jewish by birth, but she did not appear to identify culturally as Jewish, and it seems inappropriate to classify her in the Lead as a Jewish writer. There does not appear to be documentation in the article to support the idea that she was perceived as a Jewish writer in her day, unlike the later authors Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, for instance. Parkwells ( talk) 16:20, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
The photo associated with the Dorothy Parker wikipedia page is not a photo of Dorothy Parker. Comparison with any other photo of Parker makes it clear this is a different person, as not only is the face vastly different, but this photo was clearly taken at the turn of the century based on the hair and clothing, when Parker would have been a child. 2601:602:8801:C4E3:5DFB:1656:8E37:4803 ( talk) 05:04, 4 September 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:602:8801:C4E3:5DFB:1656:8E37:4803 ( talk) 05:01, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
Parker was born Dorothy Rothschild in 1893 to Jacob Henry Rothschild and his wife Eliza Annie (née Marston) (1851–1913)
But then...
Her mother died in West End in July 1898
They can't both be right. Valetude ( talk) 21:50, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates for books and articles, as well as tables for organising short stories, poems and/or book reviews. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 ( talk) 10:56, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
The use of the word "accused" seems a little weaselly to me -- I'd argue that the stronger sentence would be "Parker hated her father, who physically abused her," or, if we want to be less definitive about it, "Parker hated her father, who she said physically abused her"
The use of words like "claimed" and "accused," in the absence of explanations in other parts of the article, seems to me intended to cast doubt on the veracity of her own statements about her own life. I see no reason not to take these statements at face value.
I'm not sure what the relevant Wikipedia policies are here, but it seems to me that there is evidence from authoritative sources that Parker was physically abused by her father, and (to my knowledge) no evidence from sources that contend otherwise
As a disclaimer -- I was not able to access the source that was used for this section, so it is possible that the material therein does actually support this language. But even if this is the case, I think that the article should explain why Parker's telling is presented as an accusation rather than as a true account of her life
- Waidawut ( talk) 07:37, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Multiple uncited passages, use of unreliable sources. Z1720 ( talk) 20:08, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
I've just now deleted:
The eleven-word clause quoted above isn't obviously of interest (though I'll concede that different things interest different people). Since 2022, Life as We Know It (EP) has been a mere redirect to Wild Colonials since 2022. But even when it existed, it said nothing about Parker. All that the article Wild Colonials says of the EP is:
No, there's no mention of Parker. And Wild Colonials is an article with no references whatever. If the mention of Parker in the song is significant in some way, then nobody has been bothered to explain how. -- Hoary ( talk) 10:12, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
she and her husband are "real-life" characters and friends of Lillian Hellman in Julia 50.43.163.127 ( talk) 02:31, 2 December 2023 (UTC)
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Since this is an article about Parker, I think the extended bit about how she boosted Ellison's career with a favorable review should go in an article about Ellison. 11 Arlington --( talk) 17:50, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
I really don't think anyone should add bio info to this article unless you've read Marion Meade's bio. Because bad info keeps cropping up. -- k72ndst 04:16, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
If anyone is interested, I can kick in more about Mrs. Parker in Hollywood. She did spend about 30 years on and off there. And was nominated for two Oscars. It seems that the entry here pretty much glosses over her time in LA. That's a shame, since she did help found the Writers Guild. -- k72ndst 11:36, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
Are you sure about "Friend of Dorothy". I thought that was a Wizard of Oz / Judy Garland reference -- User:GWO
I've read an anthology of Mrs. Parker's book reviews under the name "Constant Reader"; the "thrown with great force" line is from a review of a memoir by Margot Asquith and should read "This is not a book to be. . . ."
friend of dorothy dates to the 1880s and is not about judy garland. but i can't find an online reference.
Does anyone know a source for this? I've read a lot about Mrs. Parker without running across this form of the name. (She was called Dottie sometimes, however.) RivGuySC 05:11, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
I just removed two out-of-place analyses of "Big Blonde", one of them as follows:
A less broad analysis might be in order: that the story examined only one niche in which aging women of the time found themselves, and if anything the Big Blonde and her female cohorts have given up on a search for the perfect life, the Big Blonde herself happily embracing suicide as an alternative to her grating lifestyle. — 68.62.17.196 04:25, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
For reference— I checked my copy of the OED (2nd ed.); neither of these words is attributed to Parker or mentions her, unfortunately. 'One-night stand' dates back to 1896 with a theatrical reference; the first cite for 'wisecrack' is from a 1915 San Francisco periodical. Zompist 08:53, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
Dorothy was a no-nonsense critic. She once said of a novel that failed to inspire her: "This is not a book to cast aside lightly, it should be hurled with great force." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.177.241.130 ( talk) 09:31, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
"If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised."
I added the Memorable Quotes section. I may add some more if they come to mind. SmokeyTheCat 15:59, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
I don't see why anyone would object to some quotes here. They give a flavour to the subject. Other entries in Wiki have selected quotes. But I won't revert. SmokeyTheCat 20:19, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
Parker's spontaneous combustion joke is almost certainly apocryphal, since it would make no sense at all to a teacher or student at a Catholic school. Instead, the humor is predicated on a rather common and silly misunderstanding of what the immaculate conception is, and would garner a chuckle only from such an ignorant audience. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobby Lawndale ( talk • contribs) 14:04, 20 June 2024 (UTC)
Mentions of Dorothy Parker in popular songs should be included under influences in popular culture (like the Prince song). She has been included in pop songs going all the way back to Cole Porter. So to the person who keeps deleting these reference to her, please stop doing this. If you would take the few minutes to listen to these songs -- before editing the article -- you would see these are valid for inclusion. -- K72ndst 19:03, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
This device is known for usage in literature, especially in poetry, where with few words, emotions and associations from one context are associated with objects and entities in a different context.
The sub-heading is Parker's influence "in popular culture" and that is what this refers to. Just because you don't like (a) the music; (b) the analogy; does not mean that (c) you chop it out. What the songwriter is doing is taking her essence and transferring it -- a metaphor. This is a clever usage of a common figure of speech. -- K72ndst 03:39, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
The real Dorothy Parker was definitely an inspiration for Prince's song. His song talks about how witty the waitress was ("I needed someone with a quicker wit than mine. Dorothy was fast"). Also note, Dorothy Parker died on Prince's birthday in 1967. He was well read and paid close attention to things like this. Dmsr89 ( talk) 22:01, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
I added the external link to the Dorothy Parker Society (dorothyparker.com) and it keeps being deleted. An anonymous user keeps telling me that there cannot be a link since it isn't official. However, I would like your opinion. I run the site and wrote the book A Journey into Dorothy Parker's New York. This is a literary society. We pay royalties to the estate (the NAACP). The site has numerous Parker photos, stories, audio files, and news. What is your two cents? I would like to have this link returned. There are numerous great Wikipedians that watch the Dorothy Parker article, I would invite you to look at dorothyparker.com and decide. Thanks. -- K72ndst 05:11, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
I saw that the link had been removed from the infobox as nonexistent; investigating, I saw that the problem was that it's not a "www," just a plain "https." However, this DPS site was also linked down below under External Links--but as an archive. So I replaced the Wayback version with the live version down in External. I did not add it back to the infobox, since this is not really Parker's own site but a third-party site. Jcejhay ( talk)
Now, sixteen years later, the website dorothyparker.com isn't working -- though of course this may only be temporary. -- Hoary ( talk) 06:00, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
Would it be worth adding a line that says:
Otherwise helpful editors will keep adding it. - Will Beback · † · 08:15, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
I agree with the Wiki person who added this to the article. Having TV producer Amy Sherman-Palladino name her production company Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions is a worthy addition to the References in Popular Culture section of this article. It may not be the most significant part of Parker’s legacy, but it is valuable. For seven years (plus more in syndication), the closing credits of The Gilmore Girls featured the name Dorothy Parker Drank Here Productions, which, in turn, sent untold numbers of viewers to the Web to search for just who the heck Dorothy Parker was. Millions of viewers were exposed to this over the years. Many may have come to this very article. Others may pick up Parker books. The fact that the show’s creator Amy Sherman-Palladino also had Rory Gilmore be a Parker fan, and read her work on TV and have her poster on her wall, also helped Parker’s legacy. -- K72ndst 18:32, 18 May 2007 (UTC) And the logo features a picture of a lady who has her back turned and is sitting and holding a cigarrette behind her back and is holding a martini glass. and next to the lady when the smoke grows DOROTHY PARKER DRANK HERE and P R O D U C T I O N S surrounded by two lines appear.
Everyone in the Author infobox I list under "influences" is stated in Marion Meade's biography Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? and for "influenced" these are writers who have said over the years that Parker was a major influence. K72ndst 01:01, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
Wow, a project of depth, thought and lasting impact! Most cool, I'm in! Chris 06:09, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
I'm moving this information out of the article. I'm trying to get this article up to GA or FA status and a trivia section is a bar to that goal. I've integrated a good chunk of it into the article already but this remainder doesn't fit anywhere.
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I had hoped to review this at FAC, and I apologize that I didn't get the chance to help out in time. This is obvious good article quality so I'm happy to give this a speedy pass!
I am glad to report that this article nomination for good article status has been promoted. This is how the article, as of October 14, 2007, compares against the six good article criteria:
If you feel that this review is in error, feel free to take it to Good article reassessment. Thank you to all of the editors who worked hard to bring it to this status, and congratulations. — JayHenry 04:24, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
I have re-added these. Please don't delete them without discussion as it was agreed above that would be a useful contribution to the article. SmokeyTheCat •TALK• 10:40, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
After being expelled from Randolph Hearst's castle for fornication Dorothy Parker wrote in the visitors book (in reference to his mistress);
Upon my honour
I saw the Madonna,
Standing in a niche,
Above the door,
Of a wellknown whore,
And a first class sonofabitch, page 274 Bring on the Empty Horses, David Niven
why is there no mention of her founding the Screen Actor's Guild with Lillian Hellman?
The article states that Parker was asked to leave her school for calling the dogma of the immaculate conception "spontaneous combustion." This seems to be referenced although I don't have access to the cited book. However, it doesn't really make sense. Immaculate conception refers to Mary being without sin (every other person since the fall has original sin according to Catholic docrine), I'm not sure how "spontaneous combustion" is a good metaphor for this. It would be an amusing metaphor for the dogma of the Virgin Birth of Jesus though. The two are often confused by non-catholics. I could be wrong about this, Parker may well have said it, but i think the source needs to be double checked. Grcaldwell ( talk) 11:19, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
Also "Parker survived three marriages (two to the same man) and several suicide attempts" is an amusing but unencyclopedic zeugma. Is a marriage something that one would not be expected to survive? It may be Parkerian in style (perhaps she said something similar, I wouldn't know). but it's not good style for here. Grcaldwell ( talk) 11:44, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
That is not the correct photo of Dorothy Parker. I know the LOC has it labeled as Parker, but that is a pianist from the early 20th Century, not the author. It is a common mistake that happens all the time with this same image. This photo is pre-1917 when Dorothy was still Dorothy Rothschild. Also, just compare the nose and eyes to the book covers. -- -- K72ndst ( talk) 00:35, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
The current edit says that DP's career at Vanity Fair took off in 1921, but she was terminated in 1920 after she was already popular. This seems false, but if it's true could it be clarified by someone who knows the qualifications that would make sense of it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.150.231.90 ( talk) 17:05, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
Business is Business was a 1925 silent movie, not a play, as has been recorded here: "In 1924, Parker collaborated with fellow Algonquinite George S. Kaufman on a one-act play, Business is Business." The book Dorothy Parker: A Bio-Bibliography by Randall Calhoun has a list of her screenplay and play credits. K72ndst ( talk) 17:52, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
"..and her father was of German Jewish descent (but not related to the Rothschild banking dynasty" How could he not be related? The Rothschild name was adopted by the banking dynasty for the Red Banner (or Shield) that marked the shop of Amschel Mayer Bauer in the Judenstrass 173.176.120.156 ( talk) 07:08, 21 January 2014 (UTC).
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Parker was claimed to be a patron of Polly Adler's bordello or brothel in New York.
I was very confused by a sentence talking about how acerbic Parker's reviews were, and then an awkwardly inserted quote on A A Milne. I couldn't understand what her quote actually means, but it's strongly implied that she was acerbic toward Milne, which doesn't seem correct. Thujone33 ( talk) 19:12, 21 October 2017 (UTC)Thujone33 21 October 2017
In her will, she bequeathed her estate to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Following King's death, her estate was passed on to the NAACP. Her executor, Lillian Hellman, bitterly but unsuccessfully contested this disposition.
"Her mother died in West End in July 1898..." Where is West End?
Only three Portable series—Parker's, William Shakespeare's, and The Bible—have remained in continuous print.
Seriously? The citation is just to the publisher's notes of the Portable Dorothy which dates to 1976 in the citations.The publisher is not a reliable source for such a bold claim. There are numerous portable series books that are being sold today and have been sold for some time. Contentcreator ( talk)
Parker has half-Jewish by birth, but she did not appear to identify culturally as Jewish, and it seems inappropriate to classify her in the Lead as a Jewish writer. There does not appear to be documentation in the article to support the idea that she was perceived as a Jewish writer in her day, unlike the later authors Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, for instance. Parkwells ( talk) 16:20, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
The photo associated with the Dorothy Parker wikipedia page is not a photo of Dorothy Parker. Comparison with any other photo of Parker makes it clear this is a different person, as not only is the face vastly different, but this photo was clearly taken at the turn of the century based on the hair and clothing, when Parker would have been a child. 2601:602:8801:C4E3:5DFB:1656:8E37:4803 ( talk) 05:04, 4 September 2018 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:602:8801:C4E3:5DFB:1656:8E37:4803 ( talk) 05:01, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
Parker was born Dorothy Rothschild in 1893 to Jacob Henry Rothschild and his wife Eliza Annie (née Marston) (1851–1913)
But then...
Her mother died in West End in July 1898
They can't both be right. Valetude ( talk) 21:50, 23 March 2020 (UTC)
I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates for books and articles, as well as tables for organising short stories, poems and/or book reviews. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 ( talk) 10:56, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
The use of the word "accused" seems a little weaselly to me -- I'd argue that the stronger sentence would be "Parker hated her father, who physically abused her," or, if we want to be less definitive about it, "Parker hated her father, who she said physically abused her"
The use of words like "claimed" and "accused," in the absence of explanations in other parts of the article, seems to me intended to cast doubt on the veracity of her own statements about her own life. I see no reason not to take these statements at face value.
I'm not sure what the relevant Wikipedia policies are here, but it seems to me that there is evidence from authoritative sources that Parker was physically abused by her father, and (to my knowledge) no evidence from sources that contend otherwise
As a disclaimer -- I was not able to access the source that was used for this section, so it is possible that the material therein does actually support this language. But even if this is the case, I think that the article should explain why Parker's telling is presented as an accusation rather than as a true account of her life
- Waidawut ( talk) 07:37, 7 December 2020 (UTC)
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Multiple uncited passages, use of unreliable sources. Z1720 ( talk) 20:08, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
I've just now deleted:
The eleven-word clause quoted above isn't obviously of interest (though I'll concede that different things interest different people). Since 2022, Life as We Know It (EP) has been a mere redirect to Wild Colonials since 2022. But even when it existed, it said nothing about Parker. All that the article Wild Colonials says of the EP is:
No, there's no mention of Parker. And Wild Colonials is an article with no references whatever. If the mention of Parker in the song is significant in some way, then nobody has been bothered to explain how. -- Hoary ( talk) 10:12, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
she and her husband are "real-life" characters and friends of Lillian Hellman in Julia 50.43.163.127 ( talk) 02:31, 2 December 2023 (UTC)