Early life
Also known as Dot or Dottie, Parker was born Dorothy Rothschild at 732 Ocean Avenue in the West End village of Long Branch, New Jersey, where her parents had a summer beach cottage. Parker wrote in her essay "My Hometown" that her parents got her back to their Manhattan apartment shortly after Labor Day so she could be called a true New Yorker. Her friends found her both a source of fun and of tragedy; she attempted suicide at least three times.
Read Reformers: A Poem of Hate, by Dorothy Parker, part of the literary collection, Nonsensorship, edited by G.G. Putnam, and available free from Project Gutenberg.
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