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Dorothy Parker

1893 - 1967

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Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and writer of fiction, plays and screenplays based in New York; she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary works published in magazines, such as The New Yorker, and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. In the early 1930s, Parker traveled to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting. Her successes there, including two Academy Award nominations, were curtailed when her involvement in left-wing politics resulted in her being placed on the Hollywood blacklist. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dorothy Parker is the 2,387th most popular writer (down from 1,750th in 2019), the 3,445th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,194th in 2019) and the 276th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Dorothy Parker ranks 2,387 out of 7,302. Before her are Catherine Breillat, Isaeus, Philo of Byblos, Djuna Barnes, Hans Hellmut Kirst, and Tawfiq al-Hakim. After her are Vítězslav Nezval, Shaul Tchernichovsky, Tian Han, Gertrud von Le Fort, Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski, and André Frossard.

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Among people born in 1893, Dorothy Parker ranks 109. Before her are Edna Parker, Alexander Korda, Ernst Marischka, Kathryn Adams, Mikheil Gelovani, and Israel Joshua Singer. After her are Léopold Szondi, Clas Thunberg, Beatrice Wood, Władysław Strzemiński, Madeleine Astor, and Sükhbaataryn Yanjmaa. Among people deceased in 1967, Dorothy Parker ranks 103. Before her are Juliusz Rómmel, Wolf Albach-Retty, Zbigniew Cybulski, Franz Waxman, Walter Weiß, and Robert J. Van de Graaff. After her are Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder, Ferenc Münnich, Ivan Isakov, Luis Somoza Debayle, Martine Carol, and Iona Nikitchenko.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dorothy Parker ranks 3,445 out of 20,380. Before her are Howard P. Robertson (1903), Djuna Barnes (1892), Paul Guilfoyle (1949), Lance Reddick (1962), Donald O'Connor (1925), and Christopher Browning (1944). After her are Solomon Burke (1936), Barbara Lawrence (1930), Victor French (1934), Vic Morrow (1929), Peter G. Peterson (1926), and Peggy Lipton (1946).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Dorothy Parker ranks 276. Before her are Joseph D. Pistone (1939), Mary Baker Eddy (1821), Ben Shapiro (1984), Jacques Futrelle (1875), Annie Proulx (1935), and Djuna Barnes (1892). After her are Henry Louis Gates Jr. (1950), Theodore Sturgeon (1918), Fritz Leiber (1910), James M. Cain (1892), Alex Haley (1921), and Ron Kovic (1946).

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