Dorothy Parker

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Stock #: 235616
Type: Postcard
Era: Continental Chrome
Artist: Lois Hatcher
Publisher: Fleetwood
Postmark: 1992 Aug-22
PM City: West End
PM State: NJ
Stamp: 29c
Size: 4" x 5.75" (10.25 x 15 cm)

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First day of issue: August 22, 1992 First issue location: West End, New Jersey "Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words." Dorothy Pasrker's clever distinction appeared in the Paris Review during the summer of 1956. And as one of America's foremost short-story writers and critics, Parker was an expert on wit and humor. Born and raised in New York City, Dorothy Parker went to work for the magazine Vanity Fair. With humorist Robert Benchley and critic and playwright Robert Sherwood, Parker became the core of the illustrious Algonquin Round Table, a casual luncheon klatch which met to discuss the literature of the day. In 1926 she published her first book of poetry and a year later she began to review books in The New Yorker as the "Constant Reader." Parker's story "The Big Blonde" won the O. Henry Award for best short story of the year in 1929. After working in Hollywood as a screen writer, Parker returned to New York to review books and collaborate on plays. She died in 1967, but her stylish and elegant prose has remained in intact for posterity to read and relish

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