Kevin Fitzpatrick, president of the Dorothy Parker Society, stated that the guide elevated Mrs. Parker’s profile sufficient to influence Penguin Classics to rerelease collections of her quick tales and poems within the Nineteen Nineties. And, he stated, Ms. Meade believed the screenplay of “Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle” (1994), directed by Alan Rudolph, written by Mr. Rudolph and Randy Sue Coburn and starring Jennifer Jason Leigh within the title position, was based mostly partly on her biography.
“She talked to a lawyer, however she didn’t sue,” Mr. Fitzpatrick stated in a cellphone interview. “It was a low level for her.”
Marion Lolita Sidhu was born on Jan. 7, 1934, in Pittsburgh. Her father, Surain Sidhu, an Indian immigrant, was a physicist who directed the X-ray laboratory on the College of Pittsburgh and later labored on high secret analysis on the Argonne Nationwide Laboratory. Her mom, Mary (Homoney) Sidhu, was a homemaker.
Marion’s need to be a author began in childhood. She studied journalism at Northwestern College, the place she earned a bachelor’s diploma in 1955.
Arriving in Manhattan later that 12 months to attend the Columbia College Graduate College of Journalism, she rapidly headed to the Algonquin, sat on a sofa within the foyer’s cocktail lounge, lit up a cigarette, ordered a Tom Collins and soaked within the view that should have been acquainted to Mrs. Parker.
After receiving her grasp’s diploma in 1956, she spent a 12 months interviewing celebrities and checking info for the syndicated gossip columnist Earl Wilson.
Over the following 20 years, Ms. Meade freelanced for publications together with McCall’s, Cosmopolitan and The Village Voice; and joined the New York Radical Feminists, a bunch that occupied the workplaces of Women’ House Journal for 11 hours in 1970 and secured a promise, which was fulfilled, to place out a particular “girls’s liberation” complement in a forthcoming situation. She was additionally a longtime editor at Aviation Week journal.
Supply: NY Times