Dorothy Parker is best known for the work she did and the life she lived in the early 1920s. She was a pithy, fashionable young wit at the Algonquin Round Table who wrote caustic light verse and darkly funny short stories. Her later life was more complicated. Parker went through career highs and lows and always battled alcoholism. Marion Meade, Parkers biographer, has written a short book about Parkers final decades called The Last Days of Dorothy Parker. Much of the book focuses on Parkers contentious friendship with fellow writer Lillian Hellman. Dottie and Lilly were a a perfectly matched pair, a kind of intellectual vaudeville team, Lillys protégé said. In the below excerpt, Meade describes their relationship in the 40s and their feelings about feminism. Jessica Grose
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