Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Dorothy Parker 125 -- August 22, 2018


Author and deadly wit Dorothy Parker was born 125 years ago today, on 22-August-1893.  She was an original member of the New Yorker staff.  She scripted many movies, including Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur.  Parker was blacklisted during the McCarthy era.  When she died, she left everything to Martin Luther King, Jr.  When he died, it went to the NAACP.

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