Dorothy Parker Sites

algonquinroundtable.org
The official site for the Vicious Circle. It is the place for lots of history and trivia. If you love the Round Table, this is the site for you!

Modern American Poetry: Dorothy Parker
Prepared and Compiled by Rhonda Pettit, a professor at the University of Cincinatti, who wrote A Gendered Collision: Sentimentalism and Modernism in Dorothy Parker's Poetry and Fiction (available here). Sample Parker poems, critics, comments, reviews and analysis. A good place to start if you are writing a Parker term paper. Professor Pettit does a great job of presenting Mrs. Parker.

Utica Drop Forge and Tool Company
The ultimate Dorothy Parker bibliography. Detailed list of books, films, articles and related material on Parker. Rahne Alexander is my kind of Web creator: obsessed! Don't miss her Ogden Nash-inspired tribute Mrs. Parker Speaks Gravely.

GOLDEN PORTRAIT Dorothy Parker was 50 years old when George Platt Lynes took this portrait in 1943. The Round Table had been disbanded for more than a dozen years, her husband was away in the Army, and Dottie was living in Hollywood.

Bobbed Hair & Bathtub Gin
Launched by Nan A. Talese Books to support Marion Meade's 2004 hardcover book, Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties.

The Algonquin Hotel
This is the place to stay in New York. Be sure to visit the Round Table Room and see the painting of the Vicious Circle by Natalie Ascencios.

Arrangement In Black And White, read by Tyne Daily
Listen to the classic Parker story about racism and prejudice, read by the veteran actress Tyne Daily. This story is featured on the compilation Wonderful Town - New York Stories from The New Yorker (Random House Audio). Hey, download the MP3!

Dorothy Parker's The Sexes
A short film based on the classic Parker short story. See photos that were taken behind the scenes, and watch the trailer. A fine effort.

Round Table Caricatures
Not to be missed! The National Portrait Gallery (in the Smithsonian Institution) has a page of Round Table folk, part of the Celebrity Caricature in America collection. Wonderful artwork. Nice Parker drawing by Peggy Bacon.

Dorothy Parker's U.S. Postage Stamp
To mark the 100th anniversary of Mrs. Parker's birth, the U.S. Post Office issued a stamp in West End, N.J. Their Stamp on History has a brief bio and details on the value of the stamp itself. Can you name other members of the Algonquin Round Table that are on a stamp?

Dorothy Parker Filmography
Internet Movie Database List of her many screenwriting credits (Oscar-nominated A Star is Born), as well as movies about her.

Mrs. Parker's Friends & Associates

The Robert Benchley Society
Mrs. Parker's best friend finally gets the web site he deserves. The Robert Benchley Society is located in Boston, and it is working to spread the word about one of America's greatest humorists.

Nat Benchley
Nat Benchley is the grandson of Robert Benchley. Like his grandfather, Nat is an actor, writer and humorist. He performs a show of RB's work called Benchley Despite Himself, and recorded a selection of classic Benchley pieces.

International F. Scott Fitzgerald Society
Mrs. Parker was a pal of Scott and Zelda, and knocked back more than a few cocktails with the author of The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night. The official society has bi-annual meetings around the globe in places where Scott lived and worked.

Ring Lardner: Lardnermania
Ring Lardner was a visitor to the Round Table gatherings, but not really a member. Mrs. Parker and her friends often attended parties at his large home on Long Island. Lardner, a skilled Saturday Evening Post writer, was one of the few 1920s contemporaries of Mrs. Parker who is still studied today, along with Fitzgerald and Hemingway.

George S. Kaufman
Official site of the estate of Mrs. Parker's friend, the amazing playwright George S. Kaufman. A site produced by Laurence Maslon, who edited Kaufman's collection of plays.

Heywood Broun
A great site about Mrs. Parker's friend and fellow liberal, Round Table member Heywood Broun. Includes samples of Broun's writing.

Biography of Franklin P. Adams
Michael Gilleland has the best web page about Dottie's close friend, FPA. Good information about this nearly forgotten columnist.

eHemingway.com
A terrific site with a good community element feature on all things related Ernest Heminway, Mrs. Parker's sometimes-friend.

ernest.hemingway.com
A very deep site devoted to the life and work of Ernest Hemingway. Mrs. Parker was a friend and admirer of Papa; however, he was less than kind to her. The pair did spend time together in New York and France.

Call Me Tallulah, Darling!
The connection between Tallulah Bankhead and Dorothy Parker is celebrated in this site by our pal Tony Grillo. Great designs here. Lots of photos.

Writing Related

Emdashes, The New Yorker Between the Lines
Obsessed with The New Yorker? So is Brooklyn girl Emily Gordon. See her blog Em Dashes for all things related to the magazine, present and past.

The Square Table
The Square Table is more than an online literary magazine. It is a general interest magazine featuring food and travel essays, personal essays, book and movie reviews, interviews, art and photography and fiction.

The Academy of American Poets
Every kind of resource needed for students and teachers of poetry. A bio of Mrs. Parker and her friend is included here.

Constant Reader
Here is a great site for booklovers, dedicated to our favorite book reviewer of all time. Nice page design and great content. Worth visiting frequently.

WordSmitten
Quarterly literary journal, fiction, interviews with writers and agents.

1940s VISAGE Someone sent me this photo of Dorothy Parker, it is undated. She has little aviator wings on her dress, maybe because her husband was in the Army Air Corps?

Music & Art Related

nikilee.com
Baltimore, MD, singer-songwriter Niki Lee bought the rights from the NAACP to produce a Dorothy Parker show set to her own music. here lies dorothy parker is words and song, she wrote Mrs. Parker's diary and constructed a story as to how it's come into her possession. The site has samples of her music and photos.

Natalie Ascencios
New Yorker artist Natalie Ascencios created the gorgeous painting of the Round Table that hangs in the Algonquin Hotel. Visit her portfolio site.

Liza Donnelly
The site run by Liza Donnelly, a longtime New Yorker cartoonist, and a very big Parker fan. You will recognize her work right away.

Amazing New York Sites

The Great Gatsby Boat Tour
Mrs. Parker and her pals spent a lot of time on Long Island's fabled "Gold Coast" -- where Fitzgerald set The Great Gatsby. Now, see the locations via a boat tour of beautiful Manhasset Bay, led by DPS member Eleanor Cox. A summer day on the water? Talking about literary history? What could be more pleasant that that?

Newyorkology
No site covers cool and fun things about life in New York City better than Newyorkology, run by Bklyn writer Amy Langfield. You are hearby dared to go to this site and not get sucked in! Great to check into before any trip to NYC to know what is going on.

Forgotten New York
Kevin Walsh runs this incredible site, with tons of historical and modern photos, stories, and trivia about the city. What a trip, and an excellent site.

Other Related Sites

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
If you didn't know it, Dorothy Parker (with no heirs) left everything to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when she died in 1967. He of course was assassinated the following year. Her literary rights were then transferred to the NAACP, which now owns her copyrights. Parker's ashes were placed in a memorial at the NAACP headquarters in Baltimore in 1988.

The Garden of Allah
Michael F. Hoover, who owns a digital effects company in Hollywood, has compiled an amazing history of the Garden of Allah, the long-lost hotel & villas where Mrs. Parker and her pals often stayed while in LA. Hats off to Mr. Hoover, who keeps alive a part of literary history that today is only a strip mall.

The Art Deco Home
Mark Golding runs this site out of the U.K. and its all about the amazing Art Deco period. Want to turn your apartment into an Art Deco palace? See Mark's site!

Dearly Departed Tours
Our friend Scott Michaels runs these tours of Los Angeles, for those that love dead celebrities, gossip columns, and the seedy side of fame. A must for all visitors to LA.

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