Dorothy Parker - (1893 - 1967)

Of all the Round Table members, only Dorothy Parker has achieved cult status - not for her work, but for her life. Still a best-selling poet, critic and short-story writer, she is most noted for her brilliant verbal put-downs. Her screenplays, most in collaboration, include A Star is Born, Hitchcock's Saboteur and The Little Foxes. Her demure appearance belied an acid wit and a tongue that knew few equals. Alexander Woollcott called her "a combination of Little Nell and Lady Macbeth." She was also, with Heywood Broun, the most political minded of the Round Tablers - her ashes are interred at the headquarters of the NAACP in Baltimore.

Told that Claire Booth Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors, Mrs. Parker asked, "And where does she find them?"