Dorothy Rothschild Parker was born on August 22, 1893 in Long Branch, New Jersey. She was the youngest daughter of three brothers. His mother Eliza Annie Rothschild was of Scottish descent and his father was of German Jewish descent. His mother was devoted to Catholicism. His mother (Elizabeth Jane Barrett) was a Titanic survivor; boarded the Titanic as a first class passenger. His mother died in July 1898, after his father remarried Eleanor Frances Lewis. Dorothy was not close to her stepmother. She had an unhappy childhood and was lonely. He later accused his father of being physically abusive. In You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker shows her father as a monster. Dorothy's stepmother was passionate about Roman Catholicism and Dorothy was sent to a boarding school run by nuns. Dorothy Parker was one of the most accomplished feminists of her time and a successful literary writer in history. Dorothy attempted suicide and struggled with alcoholism and spent some of her years overcoming it. Dorothy Rothschild was known in her time as the most significant woman for writing books, poems, and short stories. Dorothy Rothschild was sent to Miss Dana's School in Morristown, New Jersey. The school would make serious efforts to transform its students into educated, well-informed, well-spoken young women who would be useful in the world. Dorothy graduated from Miss Diana before the school failed and Diana died. When he was in school, he started writing poetry. He sent his poem to magazines and one was accepted by Frank Crowninshield, the editor of Vanity Fair. "Mr. Crowninshield, God rest his soul, paid twelve dollars for a little verse of mine and gave me a job on Vogue at ten dollars a... half a paper... a life lived in America."( http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/386/dparker.html He was a proud and witty person who tried to clarify his life problems such as money and relationship issues in his writing she wanted to kill herself and was an alcoholic. Dorothy was hard on herself to write as perfectly as Miss Millay “She remains one of the most astutely sensitive and elegant satirists of the twentieth century.”Works Cited http://www.english.illinois. edu/maps/poets/m_r/parker/bio.htm http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/ 386/dparker.html http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/ biography/parker.htmlKeats, John The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker: You Might as Well Live New York: Simon and Schuster, 1970. 7-.Print.http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAparker. htm