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“Threat to a Fickle Lady” (unpublished) (Parker)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

Copyright © 1957, 1973, 1974, 1977 by Elena Wilson. Also, excerpts from
The Twenties
by Edmund Wilson.

Copyright © 1975 by Edmund Wilson. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc.

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.

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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).

Table of Contents

PENGUIN BOOKS
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 - THE EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE TRAGEDY
Chapter 2 - PALIMPSEST
Chapter 3 - VANITY FAIR
Chapter 4 - CUB LIONS
Chapter 5 - THE ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE
Chapter 6 - PAINKILLERS
Chapter 7 - LAUGHTER AND HOPE AND A SOCK IN THE EYE
Chapter 8 - “YESSIR, THE WHADDYECALL’EM BLUES”
Chapter 9 - GLOBAL DISASTERS
Chapter 10 - BIG BLONDE
Chapter 11 - SONNETS IN SUICIDE, OR THE LIFE OF JOHN KNOX
Chapter 12 - YOU MIGHT AS WELL LIVE
Chapter 13 - GOOD FIGHTS
Chapter 14 - BAD FIGHTS
Chapter 15 - THE LEAKING BOAT
Chapter 16 - TOAD TIME
Chapter 17 - HIGH-FORCEPS DELIVERIES
Chapter 18 - HAM AND CHEESE, HOLD THE MAYO
Chapter 19 - LADY OF THE CORRIDOR
AFTERWORD TO THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION
Notes
Index

Table of Contents

PENGUIN BOOKS

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 - THE EVENTS LEADING UP TO THE TRAGEDY

Chapter 2 - PALIMPSEST

Chapter 3 - VANITY FAIR

Chapter 4 - CUB LIONS

Chapter 5 - THE ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE

Chapter 6 - PAINKILLERS

Chapter 7 - LAUGHTER AND HOPE AND A SOCK IN THE EYE

Chapter 8 - “YESSIR, THE WHADDYECALL’EM BLUES”

Chapter 9 - GLOBAL DISASTERS

Chapter 10 - BIG BLONDE

Chapter 11 - SONNETS IN SUICIDE, OR THE LIFE OF JOHN KNOX

Chapter 12 - YOU MIGHT AS WELL LIVE

Chapter 13 - GOOD FIGHTS

Chapter 14 - BAD FIGHTS

Chapter 15 - THE LEAKING BOAT

Chapter 16 - TOAD TIME

Chapter 17 - HIGH-FORCEPS DELIVERIES

Chapter 18 - HAM AND CHEESE, HOLD THE MAYO

Chapter 19 - LADY OF THE CORRIDOR

AFTERWORD TO THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

Notes

Index

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