Author: Dorothy Parker

Kevin C. Fitzpatrick is an independent historian who founded the Dorothy Parker Society in 1999. He has worked as a journalist in New York and is the author of several books. Fitzpatrick is a licensed New York City Sightseeing Guide who has been leading walking tours since 2000. He and his family live in Manhattan and Shelter Island, New York. Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) was one of New York’s most beloved writers. During her fifty-year writing career, she wrote poems, short stories, a novella, plays, theatre and book criticism, and dozens of film scripts. Her numerous posthumous honors include induction into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame, a commemorative US postage stamp, and her birthplace in New Jersey being named a national literary landmark.