Known for her sharp wit, Dorothy Parker was also an activist

She’s famous for her caustic quips and her love of cocktails, but there was a lot more to Dorothy Parker than her time at the famed Algonquin Round Table. The icon of New York in the 1920s spent decades in Hollywood as a screenwriter, won awards for her short stories and was a committed social activist, who ended up being blacklisted because of her ties to communist causes. She was also a war correspondent. Guests in this episode: Kevin Fitzpatrick is the founder and president of the Dorothy Parker Society. Michelle Dean is a screenwriter, critic and author of Sharp! The Women who made an Art of Having an Opinion. Nina Miller is a former English professor at Iowa State University, and the author of Making Love Modern: The Intimate Public Worlds of New York's Literary Women. Ellen Meister is a novelist and the author of Dorothy Parker Drank Here and Farewell, Dorothy Parker. Gail Crowther is a researcher, writer and the author of Dorothy Parker in Hollywood.