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Authors: Marion Meade

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Thomas, J. Parnell

“Threat to a Fickle Lady” (unpublished) (Parker)

“Three-Volume Novel” (Parker)

Thunder over the Bronx
(Kober)

Thurber, James

Time

Titanic

“To a Tragic Poetess—Nothing in her life became her like her almost leaving of it” (Hemingway)

Tolstoy, Ilya Andreyevich

“Too Bad” (Parker)

Toohey, John Peter

Torrents of Spring, The
(Hemingway)

Town Crier, The

Trade Winds

Trauch, Lester

“Treasurer’s Report” (Benchley)

Trumbo, Dalton

Twain, Mark

“Two-Volume Novel,”
see
“Three-Volume Novel”

Unfinished Woman, An
(Hellman)

Vanity Fair

Benchley and

Crowninshield and

editors’ relationships at

Parker and

Vanity Fair
(Thackeray)

Van Loon, Hendrik

Vanzetti, Bartolomeo

Vicious Circle, The
(Case)

Viking Press

Vogue

Walk a Little Faster
(Burr)

Walker, Helen

“Waltz, The” (Parker)

“War Song” (Parker)

Watch on the Rhine
(Hellman)

Weaver, John V. A.

Weekend for Three

“Welcome Home” (Parker)

Wellman, William

Wells, Carolyn

West, Eileen

West, Nathanael

“What a Man’s Hat Means to Me” (Parker and Benchley)

What Makes Sammy Run?
(Schulberg)

What Price Hollywood?

White, E. B.

Whitehead, Robert

Whitney, John Hay “Jock,”

“Why I Haven’t Married” (Parker)

Wilbur, Richard

Wilder, Thornton

Wilson, Edmund “Bunny,”

on Benchley

Parker and

Wilson, Mary

Wilson, Rosalind

Wilson, Woodrow

Winchell, Walter

Winter, Ella

Winwood, Estelle

Wodehouse, P. G. “Plum,”

Woman’s Home Companion

“Women: A Hate Song” (Parker)

Women’s Wear Daily

“Wonderful Old Gentleman, The” (Parker)

Wood, Peggy

Woodbury, Dana

Woollcott, Alexander

death of

drama criticism of

on Parker

physical appearance and personality of

radio show of

Round Table and

sexuality of

war service of

Wylie, Elinor

Wylie, Horace

Yaddo

You Can Be Beautiful

Zabel, Morton

Grateful acknowledgment is made to each of the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS, INC.: excerpt from “Any Porch” by Dorothy Parker from the September 1915 issue of
Vanity Fair.
Copyright 1915, renewed 1943, 1971 by The Condé Nast Publications, Inc. Courtesy of
Vanity Fair.
Excerpt from “Crowninshield in the Cubs Den” from the September 1944 issue of
Vogue
. Copyright 1944, renewed 1972 by The Condé Nast Publications, Inc. Courtesy of
Vogue.

MALCOLM COWLEY: letter dated November 17,1982. Reprinted with his permission.

DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY. INC.: excerpt from
Elinor Wylie
by Stanley Olson. Reprinted by permission of Doubleday & Company, Inc.

ESQUIRE MAGAZINE: excerpt from “Whatever You Think Dorothy Parker Was Like, She Wasn’t” by Wyatt Cooper from the July 1968 issue of
Esquire.
Copyright © 1968 by Esquire Associates. Reprinted with permission of
Esquire.

M. EVANS AND COMPANY, INC.: excerpt from
Additional Dialogue: Letters of Dalton Trumbo 1942-1962
by Dalton Trumbo and Helen Manfull. Copyright © 1970 by Dalton Trumbo. Reprinted by permission of the publisher, M. Evans and Company, Inc., New York.

FARRAR. STRAUS & GIROUX, INC.: excerpts from
Letters on Literature and Politics,
1912-1972 by Edmund Wilson.

SAMUEL FRENCH, INC.: excerpt from Act III of
Close Harmony or The Lady Next Door
by Elmer L. Rice and Dorothy Parker. Copyright 1924 by Elmer L. Rice and Dorothy Parker. Reprinted by permission of Samuel French, Inc.

HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH, INC.: excerpts from
88 Poems
by Ernest Hemingway. Copyright © 1979 by The Ernest Hemingway Foundation and Nicholas Gerogiannis. Reprinted by permission of Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY: excerpt from
The Enthusiast: A Life of Thomton Wilder
by Gilbert A. Harrison. Copyright © 1983 by Gilbert A. Harrison; excerpt from
Letters of Archibald Macleish 1907-1982,
edited by R.H. Winnick. Copyright © 1983 by the Estate of Archibald MacLeish and R.H. Winnick. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company.

NATALIA MURRAY: letter from Janet Flanner to Alexander Woolcott, ca. 1939-1940. Permission granted for Janet Flanner by Natalia Murray, Literary Executor.

RANDOM HOUSE, INC.: excerpts from
Sara and Gerald: Villa America and After
by Honoria Murphy Donnelly and Richard N. Billings. Published by Times Books, a division of Random House, Inc. Copyright © 1982 by Honoria. Donnelly and Richard N. Billings; excerpts from
Correspondence of F. Scott Fitzgerald,
edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli and Margaret M. Duggan. Copyright © 1980 by Frances Scott Fitzgerald Smith; excerpts from
Candide: A Comic Opera Based on Voltaire’s Satire
by Lillian Hellman. Copyright © 1957 by Lillian Hellman; excerpts from
Selected Letters of John O’Hara,
edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Copyright © 1978 by United States Trust Company of New York, as Trustees of the will of John O’Hara; excerpts from
The O’Hara Concern: The Biography of John O’Hara
by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Copyright © 1975 by Matthew J. Bruccoli. Reprinted by permission of Random House, Inc.

CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS AND HAROLD OBER ASSOCIATES, INC.: excerpts from
The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald,
edited by Andrew Turnbull. Copyright © 1963 by Francis Scott Fitzgerald Lanahan. Reprinted by permission of Charles Scribner’s Sons and Harold Ober Associates, Inc.

SIMON AND SCHUSTER, INC.: excerpts from
The Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys
by Franklin Pierce Adams. Copyright 1935 by Franklin Pierce Adams. Copyright renewed 1963 by Anthony, Jonathan, Timothy, and Persephine Adams. Reprinted by permission of Simon and Schuster, Inc.

LELAND STOWE: excerpt from a letter from Dorothy Parker to Leland Stowe. Reprinted with his permission.

ROSEMARY C. THURBER: excerpt from
Selected Letters of James Thurber
by Helen Thurber and Edward Weeks. Copyright © 1981 by Helen Thurber. Published by Atlantic-Little Brown.

VIKING PENGUIN, INC.: excerpts from
The Portable Dorothy Parker,
revised and edited by Brendan Gill. Copyright 1926, 1928, 1929, 1933, 1938, 1943, 1944 by Dorothy Parker. Copyright renewed 1954, 1956, 1957, 1961, 1966 by Dorothy Parker. Copyright renewed 1971, 1972 by Lillian Hellman. Copyright © 1970 by The Viking Press, Inc.; excerpts from
Don’t Tread on Me: The Selected Letters of S. J. Perelman,
edited by Prudence Crowther.

Copyright © 1987 by Abby Perelman and Adam Perelman; excerpts from the interview with Dorothy Parker by Marion Capron in
Writers at Work:
The Paris Review
Interviews, 1st Series,
edited by Malcolm Cowley. Copyright © 1957, 1958 by The Paris Review, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Viking Penguin Inc.

Material deleted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on the grounds that it falls under one or more of the Freedom of Information Act’s nine exemptions (e.g., unwarranted invasion of privacy, damage to national security).

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