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=Dorothy Parker = = = = =

Family and Personal Life

 * Lived a conflicted and unhappy childhood
 * Her mother died at a young age and her father remarried
 * she despised her father and her stepmother
 * step-mother died when she was 9 (1903); father when she was 19 (1913)
 * Went through 3 marriages..2 with the same man!
 * Parker had several suicide attempts and was an alcoholic

Her Work

 * Became famous for short, humorous poems
 * Many were about her romantic (and unsuccessful) affairs