Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?

Marion Meade's engrossing and comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most captivating women

In this lively, absorbing biography, Marion Meade illuminates both the charm and the dark side of Dorothy Parker, exploring her days of wicked wittiness at the Algonquin Round Table with the likes of Robert Benchley, George Kaufman, and Harold Ross, and in Hollywood with S. J. Perelman, William Faulkner, and Lillian Hellman. At the dazzling center of it all, Meade gives us the flamboyant, self-destructive, and brilliant Dorothy Parker.

This edition features a new afterword by Marion Meade.

Author: Marion Meade
Publisher: Penguin Group
Published: 03/03/1989
Pages: 459
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.33lbs
Size: 9.11h x 6.08w x 1.27d
ISBN13: 9780140116168
ISBN10: 0140116168
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Biography & Autobiography | Women

About the Author
Marion Meade is the author of Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? and Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties. She has also written biographies of Woody Allen, Buster Keaton, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Victoria Woodhull, and Madame Blavatsky, as well as two novels about medieval France.