August 22, 1893 –
If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.
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.
And so it goes
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