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A Short Biography of Dorothy Parker

Author Name:

Dorothy Parker

Born As:

Dorothy Rothschild

Other Names:

Born:

22 Aug 1893

Died:

7 Jun 1967




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Writer, humorist and poet                          
                          
Mother Eliza Annie Marston
Father Jacob Henry Rothschild
Husband one - Edwin Pond Parker II - 1917-1928
Husband two - Alan Campbell - 1934-1947
and again - Alan Campbell - 1950-1963                          
Member of the Algonquin Wits.                          
Was asked to leave the Roman Catholic elementary school at the Convent of the Blessed Sacrament following her characterization of the Immaculate Conception as "spontaneous combustion.