August 22, 1893 –
Tell him I was too fucking busy– or vice versa.
Dorothy Parker was born in New York City, to Henry and Eliza Rothschild (… My God, no, dear! We’d never even heard of those Rothschilds ….) on this date.
Her birth was two months premature, allowing her to say that it was the last time she was early for anything. She was quoted, when discussing her early years, “All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn’t sit in the same room with me.“
While she was a successful writer, she was just plain lousy at committing suicide. Dorothy Parker attempted suicide four times herself before succumbing to a heart attack in 1967.
Demand Euphoria!
The Haus of Dcaligari 