Dorothy Parker in Hollywood

“[A] briskly detailed, fluently insightful, and dramatically reorienting biography . . . An eye-opening reclamation and appreciation.” —Booklist, starred review “Crowther thoughtfully considers Parker’s ambivalence about Hollywood through her poetry and fiction, failed romances, miscarriages, suicide attempts and activism. Parker was often abrasive, but Crowther considers Parker empathetically, as a sui generis who resisted becoming a cog in the filmmaking machinery.”—Los Angeles Times “An ambitious, thoughtfully researched portrait of an often brilliant yet irascible talent.”—Kirkus Reviews “Highly accessible . . . Parker continues to fascinate, and Crowther's biography is a welcome addition to the effort to understand such a complicated woman.” —Shelf Awareness