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AUTHOR'S NOTE To identify in the text or in notes all the sources of material in a book of this sort seems to the author an imposition on the reader. Yet he is eager to give credit where credit is due. Many lines, ascribed to Dorothy Parker by quotation marks, originally appeared in Wyatt Cooper's article 'Remembering Dorothy Parker', which appeared in the July 1968 edition of Esquire magazine; in Marion Capron's interview, published in Writers at Work, The Paris Review Interviews, First Series (The Viking Press, 1958); in Richard E. Lauterbach's article 'The Legend of Dorothy Parker', appearing in the October 1944 issue of Esquire magazine; in an Associated Press interview with Dorothy Parker that was teleprinted in newspapers on 23 August 1963, and in a radio interview with Mrs Parker conducted by Richard Lam-parski of Radio Station WBAI, New York. In addition, material has been taken from Anita Loos's But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes; from Vincent Sheean's Personal History, from Ernest Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa; from Corey Ford's The Time of Laughter; from Nathaniel Benchley's Robert Benchley; from Jane Grant's Ross, The New Yorker, and Me; and from George Oppenheimer's play Here Today. Quotation from Dorothy Parker's poems and stories is by permission of The Viking Press. Permission to quote from Mrs Parker's magazine articles and from magazine and newspaper interviews with her and from reviews of her work has been granted by The English Journal, Esquire magazine, Vogue magazine, The New York Times, and the New York World Telegram & Sun. Quotation from The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy (iith edition, © 1966) is by permission of Merck & Co., Inc. The sources of particular items not identified in the text will be supplied on the request of any seriously interested reader. For their hours of tape-recorded conversation, correspondence, or other special assistance, the author is particularly indebted to Beatrice Ames; Mr and Mrs Robeson Bailey; Dr Alvan Barach; Mr and Mrs Hiram Beer; Gertrude Benchley; Mr and Mrs Nathaniel Benchley; Marshall A. Best; Beatrice B. Boden-