Dorothy Parker works now available in the public domain

Read all the poems published in Enough Rope (Boni & Liveright, 1926) by Dorothy Parker, now available in the public domain, as well as “The Algonquin Hotel: Summer 1927,” the introduction to the comprehensive biography Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? (Penguin Books, 1989), by Marion Meade.

Epitaph for a Darling Lady
L’ENVOI:
Nocturne
Pictures in the Smoke
Rainy Night

Parker became a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table and was an editor and writer for many publications, including Vanity Fair, taking over for P.G. Wodehouse as drama critic, and the New Yorker. A firm believer in civil rights, she bequeathed her literary estate to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Upon his assassination the following year, the estate was turned over to the NAACP.