Praise for Dorothy Parker in Hollywood:
"[A] welcome effort to expand our view of the writer's career. The film industry's influence on Parker, as well as hers on it, is a juicy subject that's ripe for evaluation in our own screen-obsessed age." —Wall Street Journal
"Dorothy Parker broke boundaries, landed in the center of literary New York, and was seduced by the money and vanity of Hollywood...She had so much talent, and such a lack of control. This is a lesson in fame and in the destructiveness of your own demons. I was hypnotized by it." —Delia Ephron, author of Left on Tenth
"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
"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
GAIL CROWTHER is a writer, researcher, and academic. She is the author of Three-Martini Afternoons at the Ritz: The Rebellion of Sylvia Plath & Anne Sexton, The Haunted Reader and Sylvia Plath, and the coauthor of Sylvia Plath in Devon: A Year’s Turning and These Ghostly Archives: The Unearthing of Sylvia Plath. Gail divides her time between the North of England and London. As a feminist vegan she engages with politics concerning gender, power, and animal rights.
