22 Aug, 1893
Dorothy Parker born in Long Branch, New Jersey
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Patrick Griffiths2015-06-16 23:23:342015-06-17 00:33:06Dorothy Parker born in Long Branch, New JerseyParker is born to Jacob and Eliza Rothchild. She grows up on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. She has an unhappy childhood. Both her mother and step-mother die when she is young. She attends a Catholic grammar school, then a finishing school in Morristown, NJ. Her formal education abruptly ends when she is 14.
All those writers who talk about their childhood! Gentle God, if I ever wrote about mine, you wouldn’t sit in the same room with me.
7 May, 1967
Dorothy Parker dies age 73
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Patrick Griffiths2015-06-16 23:35:432015-06-17 00:34:46Dorothy Parker dies age 73
Parker dies of a heart attack in New York. She has outlived her friends and family. Her epitaph reads:
This Is On Me.