WRITER

Dorothy Parker

1893 - 1967

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Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet, writer, critic, wit, and satirist based in New York; she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles. From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary works published in magazines, such as The New Yorker, and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. Following the breakup of the circle, Parker traveled to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dorothy Parker has received more than 3,467,816 page views. Her biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Dorothy Parker is the 1,751st most popular writer (down from 1,439th in 2019), the 2,194th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,831st in 2019) and the 192nd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

After such pleasures ..
1933
Sunset gun
1928
Not so deep as a well
1936
The ladies of the corridor
Drama, Divorced women, Widows
1954
The collected poetry of Dorothy Parker
Juvenile literature, American poetry, American Poets
1936
The portable Dorothy Parker
men problems, poetry, short stories
Collection of Parker's stories, poems, essays. It's a small size, but wow, is it full of her great writing! Someone stole my copy, and I'm missing her humor and instinct for saying it like it is, or was, during her days with the Algonquin Round Table. HIGHLY RECOMMEND. One of the most quotable of twentieth-century authors, Dorothy Parker has attained a wide-ranging and enthusiastic following. This revised and enlarged edition, with an introduction by Brendan Gill, comprises the original 1944 Portable, as selected and arranged by Dorothy Parker herself and including all her most celebrated poems and stories, along with a selection of her later stories, play reviews, articles, book reviews from Esquire, and the complete Constant Reader, her collected New Yorker book reviews. - Back cover.
1973

Page views of Dorothy Parkers by language

Over the past year Dorothy Parker has had the most page views in the with 346,703 views, followed by German (22,598), and Spanish (19,125). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Cornish (225.74%), Chuvash (83.69%), and Georgian (68.27%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Dorothy Parker ranks 1,751 out of 7,302. Before her are David Burliuk, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, Edmond Hamilton, Minamoto no Sanetomo, I. L. Peretz, and Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. After her are Li Yu, Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay, Alexandre Benois, Princess Michael of Kent, Karl-Maria Kertbeny, and Notker the Stammerer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1893, Dorothy Parker ranks 77. Before her are Friedrich Christian, Margrave of Meissen, Marianne Brandt, Wilhelm Zaisser, Leonarda Cianciulli, Jean Absil, and Carl Værnet. After her are Dean Acheson, Henry Murray, Armand Călinescu, Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz, William Moulton Marston, and Clark Ashton Smith. Among people deceased in 1967, Dorothy Parker ranks 81. Before her are Stanisław Sosabowski, Josias, Hereditary Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Joseph Boxhall, Tom Simpson, David Burliuk, and Hans Ledwinka. After her are Zbigniew Cybulski, Alphonse Juin, Ernst Niekisch, Martine Carol, Wolf Albach-Retty, and Henry Morgenthau Jr..

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dorothy Parker ranks 2,194 out of 20,380. Before her are Anna Moffo (1932), Charles M. Rice (1952), Edmond Hamilton (1904), Doc Holliday (1851), Dexter Gordon (1923), and Paul Cohen (1934). After her are Maxwell D. Taylor (1901), Patricia Clarkson (1959), Michael Emerson (1954), Don S. Davis (1942), Linda Blair (1959), and Richard Ramirez (1960).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Dorothy Parker ranks 192. Before her are Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930), E. E. Cummings (1894), Ken Wilber (1949), William Carlos Williams (1883), Joan Didion (1934), and Edmond Hamilton (1904). After her are Richard Ford (1944), Suzanne Collins (1962), Raymond E. Feist (1945), Patricia Cornwell (1956), Robert Silverberg (1935), and Djuna Barnes (1892).

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