Dorothy Parker
Her biting wit made her a
legend, but it also masked her lonely struggle
with depression. A member of the Algonquin
Round Table group of writers, she wrote criticism
for Vogue,Vanity Fair, and later theNew Yorker.
During
the
1930s
Parker
moved
to
Hollywood,where she worked on such films as A
Star Is Born, for which she won an Academy Award.
Bess Lovejoy
is the author of Rest in
Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses,
which Amazon named one of the best books of
2013. She writes frequently about the darker
corners of history, and her work has appeared
in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal,
Time, The Smithsonian, Lapham's Quarterly,
Slate, The Boston Globe, and elsewhere. She also works as a
freelance editor and researcher for books and film. She is a
member of The Order of the Good Death, and a fou