Satirist, best known for her sharp wit, wisecracks and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.

Dorothy Parker  was best known as a journalist and critic but she was also a very witty person and an able poet.An American critic, satirical poet, and short-story writer, Dorothy Rothschild Parker was born in West End, New Jersey, Aug. 22, 1893. She is remembered as much for her flashing verbal exchanges and malicious wit as for the disenchanted stories and sketches in which she revealed her underlying pessimism. Starting her career as Vanity Fair`s drama critic (1917-20) and continuing as the New Yorker`s theater and book reviewer (1927-33), Parker enhanced her legend in the 1920s and early 1930s through membership in the Algonquin Hotel`s celebrated Round Table.

Parker published her first light verse in Enough Rope (1927) and Death and Taxes (1931)