Dorothy Parker

DOROTHY PARKER was an American short-story writer, poet, screenwriter, and critic and satirist known for her legendary wit. When told that the taciturn former U.S. president Calvin Coolidge had died, she is said to have asked, "How can they tell?" Of Katharine Hepburn's performance in a 1934 play, Parker said she "ran the gamut of emotions from A to B." She was one of the founders of the Algonquin Round Table and was long associated with The New Yorker.