Dorothy Parker
Writer
August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967
Credits:
Poems:
A Certain
Lady; A Dream Lies Dead; A Fairly Sad Tale; A Pig's-Eye View Of Literature; A
Portrait; A Very Short Song; A Well-Worn Story; After Spanish Proverb; Afternoon;
Alexandre Dumas And His Son; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Anecdote; August; Autobiography;
Autumn Valentine; Ballade at Thirty-five; Ballade Of A Great Weariness; Ballade
of Unfortunate Mammals; Bohemia; Braggart; Bric-a-Brac; But Not Forgotten; Chant
For Dark Hours; Charles Dickens; Coda; Comment; Condolence; Convalescent; D.G.
Rossetti; Daylight Saving; De Profundis; Dilemma; Distance; Epitaph; Experience;
Fable; Fair Weather; Faute De Mieux; Fighting Words; Finis; For A Favorite
Granddaughter; For A Lady Who Must Write Verse; For A Sad Lady; For An Unknown
Lady; From A Letter From Lesbia; Frustration; Fulfillment; Garden-Spot; General
Review Of The Sex Situation; George Gissing; George Sand; Godmother; Godspeed; Guinevere
at Her Fireside; Harriet Beecher Stowe; Healed; Hearthside; I Know I Have Been
Happiest; I Shall Come Back; Incurable; Indian Summer; Inscription for the
Ceiling of a Bedroom; Interior; Interview; Inventory; Iseult Of Brittany; Landscape;
Liebestod; Light Of Love; Lines On Reading Too Many Poets; Little Words; Love
Song; Lullaby; Men; Midnight; Mortal Enemy; My Own; Neither Bloody Nor Bowed; News
Item; Ninon De Lenclos, On Her Last Birthday; Nocturne; Now At Liberty; Observation;
Of a Woman, Dead Young; On Being A Woman; One Perfect Rose; Ornithology For
Beginners; Oscar Wilde; Parable For A Certain Virgin; Partial Comfort; Paths; Pattern;
Penelope; Philosophy; Plea; Portrait of the Artist; Post-Graduate; Pour Prendre
Conge; Prayer For a New Mother; Prayer For A Prayer; Prisoner; Prologue to a
Saga; Prophetic Soul; Purposely Ungrammatical Love Song; Rainy Night; Recurrence;
Renunciation; Requiescat; Rhyme Against Living; Roundel; Salome's
Dancing-Lesson; Sanctuary; Sight; Social Note; Solace; Somebody's Song; Song in
a Minor Key; Song Of One Of The Girls; Song of Perfect Propriety; Sonnet For
The End Of A Sequence; Sonnet On An Alpine Night; Summary; Superfluous Advice; Surprise;
Sweet Violets; Symptom Recital; Temps Perdu; Testament; The Apple Tree; The
Burned Child; The Choice; The Danger Of Writing Defiant Verse; The Dark Girl's
Rhyme; The Dramatists; The Evening Primrose; The False Friends; The Flaw In
Paganism; The Gentlest Lady; The Homebody; The Immortals; The Lady's Reward; The
Last Question; The Leal; The Little Old Lady in Lavender Silk; The New Love; The
Red Dress; The Satin Dress; The Sea; The Searched Soul; The Second Oldest Story;
The Small Hours; The Thin Edge; The Trifler; The Trusting Heart; The Veteran; The
Whistling Girl; The White Lady; The Willow; Theory; There Was One; They Part; Thomas
Carlyle; Thought For A Sunshiny Morning; Threnody; To A Much Too Unfortunate
Lady; Tombstones in the Starlight; Transition; Two-Volume Novel; Ultimatum; Unfortunate
Coincidence; Vers Demode; Verse For a Certain Dog; Victoria; Wail; Walter
Savage Landor; Wisdom; Words of Comfort to Be Scratched on a Mirror.
Books:
50 Great
American Short Stories (1963); 50 Great Short Stories (1952); After Such
Pleasures (1940); Alaska Stories (1995); Big Blonde and Other Stories (1929); Cape
Cod Stories (2002); Chicago Stories (1993); Children Playing Before a Statue of
Hercules (2005); Death and Taxes (1931); Enough Rope (1926); First Fiction: An
Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers (1994); Florida
Stories (1993); Here Lies (1939); Here We Are, a Telephone Call (2001); Laments
for the Living (1930); Life Stories (2000); Los Angeles Stories (1991); Lust:
Lascivious Love Stories and Passionate Poems (1994); Men I'm Not Married To (1922);
New Orleans Stories (1992); Not Much Fun (1996); Not So Deep as a Well (1937); Points
of View (1956); San Francisco Stories (1990); San Francisco Thrillers (1995); Sayings
of Dorothy Parker (1992); Secret Ingredients (2007); Selected Readings from the
Portable Dorothy Parker (1976); Selected Stories (1995); Sisters (2009); Southwest
Stories (1993); Such a Pretty Little Picture and Other Stories (2023); Sunset
Gun: Poems (1940); Texas Stories (1995); The Coast of Illyria (1990); The
Collected Poetry of Dorothy Parker (1944); The Collected Short Stories (1942); The
Ladies of the Corridor (1954); The Portable Dorothy Parker (1944); The Sexes (1944);
Women Writers at Work (1989); Wonderful Town (2000).
Movies and
television:
2nd
House (1975); A Cat in Paris (2010); A Star Is Born (1954); A Telephone Call (2014);
American Masters (1987); August (2013); Big Blonde (1980); Bomb Girls (2012); Candide
(1988 / 2024); Desert Hearts (1985); Dick Stabile and His Orchestra (1952); Dorothy
and Alan at Norma Place (1982); Dynamite (1929); Een heel kleintje maar (1967);
Grande Teatro Tupi (1952); Hands Across the Table (1935); Here Is My Heart
(1934); I Live on Your Visits (2024); I Wished on the Moon (1935); In the Pink (1982);
ITV Play of the Week (1960); Jerry Gray and the Band of Today (1950); Ladies of
the Corridor (1975); Lady Be Careful (1936); Language of Love (1964); Licorice
Pizza (2021); Life Together (2016); Madonna Feat. Massive Attack: I Want You
(1995); Madonna: Celebration - The Video Collection (2009); Movie Melodies on
Parade (1936); Moving Pictures (1995); O Telefonema (2010); Pakinateatteri (1960);
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951); Public Speaking (2010); Queen for a Day
(1951); Remodeling Her Husband (1920); Saboteur (1942); Shoestring Theatre (1959–1962);
Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947); Something to Read (1959); Stars and the
Moon: Betty Buckley Live at the Donmar (2002); Stranded in Canton (2005); Suzy
(1936); Sweethearts (1938); Teatterituokio (1966); The Ben Hecht Show (1959); The
Big Broadcast of 1936 (1935); The Cowboy and the Lady (1938); The David
Susskind Show (1959); The Day of the Locust (1975); The Fan (1949); The Flower
of My Secret (1995); The Game (2004); The Green Helmet (1961); The Hoodlum
Saint (1946); The Little Foxes (1941); The Lovely Leave (1999); The Maker (1997);
The Moon's Our Home (1936); The Night Before Christmas (1957); The Plymouth
Playhouse (1953); The Sexes (2008); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1959);
Three Married Men (1936); T'odio, amor meu (1996); Trade Winds (1938); Weekend
for Three (1941); Woman Chases Man (1937); Women and Men: Stories of Seduction
(1990); You Were Perfectly Fine (2009).
