Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker (22 August 1893 – 7 June 1967) was an American poet, critic and short-story writer, a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table — the lunch circle of New York writers whose one-liners were relayed to the country through Franklin P. Adams’s newspaper column. She published the verse collections Enough Rope (1926), Sunset Gun (1928) and Death and Taxes (1931), wrote fiction for The New Yorker, and earned two Academy Award nominations for screenwriting, including A Star Is Born (1937). She resented how reliably her epigrams were reassigned to more famous men — she joked in verse that anything clever of hers would end up credited to Oscar Wilde — and she left her literary estate to Martin Luther King Jr., and after his death to the NAACP.