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Dorothy Parker was recognized for her crazy one liners, her callous theatre complaint, her intelligent passages and bittersweet tales, but there was another aspect to Dorothy Parker--a personal existence, established on a training course of destruction. She endured through many suicide attempts, a chain of unpleasant matters, a problem with booze, and two divorces. In this exciting, absorbing resource, Marion Meade illuminates both black part of Parker and her times of evil wittiness in the Algonquin Round-Table with the kind of Robert Benchley, George Kaufman, and Harold Ross, and in Hollywood with S.J. Perelman, Lilian Hellman, and William Faulkner.