Alpine Giggle Week by Dorothy Parker

Author:Dorothy Parker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2014-05-26T16:00:00+00:00

Please, my deepest respects to the novel Miss Guinzburg.

And now I’ll remember all the things I didn’t say, and go crazy. But this letter was just to get you caught up on the Summer.

CAST OF CHARACTERS

Alcott, Louisa May (1832–1888): Famous for the beloved novel Little Women.

Barnekow, Brita von (1858–?): Danish baroness.

Barry, Philip (1896–1949): Dramatist whose play The Philadelphia Story was made into a popular Katharine Hepburn film.

Benchley, Robert (1899–1945): Humorist and film actor, New Yorker critic, member of the Algonquin Round Table.

Blütenburg, Eiko von (aka “Robinson”): Parker’s pedigreed dachshund purchased in Munich in 1930, died in 1932, after being attacked by another dog in New York.

Broun, Heywood: Highly regarded New York World columnist and member of the Algonquin Round Table.

Buchanan, Bucky: (?)

Connelly, Marc (1890–1980): Playwright respected for Pulitzer Prize–winning drama The Green Pastures, member of the Algonquin Round Table.

Crevel, René (1900–1935): French surrealist writer diagnosed with tuberculosis in 1926, committed suicide.

Fitzgerald Lanahan Smith, Frances Scott (“Scottie”) (1921–1986): Journalist, daughter of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott (1896–1940): Novelist, screenwriter, best known for The Great Gatsby.

Fitzgerald, Zelda Sayre (1900–1948): Writer, dancer, famed “flapper,” muse of her husband, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749–1832): German poet, novelist, playwright, philosopher, best known for The Sorrows of Young Werther and Faust.

Griswold, John A. (“Jack”) (1882–1940): Comanager Guaranty Trust Co., Paris branch.

Guinzburg Lauro, Carola (“the novel Miss Guinzburg”) (1930–2007): Newly born daughter of Alice and Harold Guinzburg.

Hale, Ruth (1887–1934): Journalist, feminist cofounder of the Lucy Stone League, wife of newspaper columnist Heywood Broun, mother of TV sportscaster Heywood Hale (“Woodie”) Broun.

Hemingway, Ernest (1899–1961): Nobel Prize–winning novelist best known for A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises.

King, Muriel (1900–1977): Fashion designer and Hollywood costumer for such stars as Katharine Hepburn.

Long, Lois (1901–1974): New Yorker columnist (“Lipstick”) who covered speakeasies, wife of New Yorker cartoonist Peter Arno (1904–1968).

MacLeish, Archibald (1892–1982): Pulitzer Prize–winning poet and playwright, Librarian of Congress.

Mann, Thomas (1875–1955): German Nobel laureate novelist, known for The Magic Mountain, Death in Venice, and other works.

Marquis, Don (1878–1937): Humorous poet, newspaper columnist, remembered for creating a fictional cockroach “Archy” and his alley cat friend “Mehitabel.”

Martin, Townsend (1895–1951): Playwright, screenwriter, wealthy Princetonian friend of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s.

McEvoy, J. P. (1897–1958): Short-story writer, novelist, creator of the popular comic strip “Dixie Dugan.”

Murphy, children of Gerald and Sara: Honoria (1917–1998), Baoth (1919–1935), Patrick (1920–1937).

Murphy, Gerald (1888–1964), and Sara Wiborg Murphy (1883–1975): Renowned American expatriate couple living in France during the 1920s, who befriended artists and writers such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Gerald Murphy, whose family owned Mark Cross luxury leather goods, now is recognized as an accomplished still-life painter of pop culture images (Razor, 1924, Watch, 1925). Portraits of the couple appear in Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night and Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast.

Paterson, Isabel (1886–1961): Novelist, book review columnist for the New York Herald Tribune, one of the founders of American libertarianism.

Ruskin, John (1819–1900): English art critic (The Stones of Venice).

Saalburg, Allen (1899–1987): Painter, silk-screen artist, muralist (1930s WPA), married to Muriel King.

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