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The Mind Creative Nov 2013

humorous poems. The next 15 years
turned out to be Dorothy Parker's
greatest period of productivity and
success. In the 1920s alone, she
published nearly 300 poems and free
verses in Vanity Fair, Vogue, "The
Conning Tower" and The New
Yorker,as well as Life, McCall's and The
New Republic. However, behind the
cynical facade, she was a very
sentimental person and a disappointed
romantic. She had a fascination for
flowers, dogs and a good cry. It is possible that her sadness and
introversion gave her ferocious humour that extra bite.
From the 1920's onwards, she was very active in liberal
movements and in 1951 she was cited by the House Un-American
Activities Committee, with 300 other writers, professors, actors
and artists, for being affiliated with “Communist-front"
organizations.
In her final days, Miss Parker
remained quite sad about her
life's accomplishments and she
lacked the strength to write any
more. Dorothy Parker passed
away on June 7th, 1967 and with
her died an extraordinary mind
brimming with acerbic and
sardonic wit; the likes of which
are rare to come by. She was 73
years old and she died leaving
no surviving family.

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