![]() One of her father’s siblings, his youngest brother Martin, died in the sinking of the Titanic when Parker was 19 years old. Buy The Portable Dorothy Parker: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) 2 by Parker, Dorothy, Seth, Meade, Marion (ISBN: 9780143039532) from Amazons Book Store. Her father was descended from German Jewish merchants whose family had settled in Alabama half a century earlier, and her mother had Scottish heritage. ![]() Wit has truth in it wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words."ĭorothy Parker was born to Jacob Henry Rothschild and his wife Eliza (née Marston) in Long Beach, New Jersey, where her parents had a summer beach cottage. ![]()
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