- Left most of her estate to Martin Luther King. Left her ashes to Lillian Hellman who never claimed them.
- One of the games Parker and her witty friends indulged in while sitting at The Algonquin Round Table was one requiring each of them to come up with facetious definitions for big words. Among Parker's best was her pun on "horticulture": You can lead a "horticulture," but you can't make her think.
- At a low point in her finances, a friend interceded with John Gilbert, who graciously sent $2,000. Then, when his career was on the wane, he inquired if it might be possible to collect on some of the loans he'd made. Dorothy sent a check and in return received red roses with a note, "Thank you, Miss Finland" (Finland was the only country that had paid its war debt to the U.S. after World War I).
- Attempted suicide many times during her life.
- She lived alone for the last four years of her life, having no family of her own. She believed herself to be penniless at the end of her life, but, after her death, it was discovered that she had about $20,000 in a savings account which she had completely forgotten about. She left all her money to a man she greatly admired but had never met - Martin Luther king, who was murdered less than a year after her death.
- A lifelong liberal activist and vocal supporter of civil liberties who loathed the process of actually writing anything, Parker spent much of her adult life simultaneously basking in her reputation as one of America's foremost wits, and struggling to pay for her most basic needs. As a result, she was a frequent house guest in the homes of indulgent and supportive fellow authors and friends.
- After her death, some of her ashes were scattered at a specially designed memorial garden at the NAACP headquarters in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
- She was blacklisted in Hollywood in the 1950s for alleged communist sympathies.
- Among Parker's best remembered witticisms was her remark upon being told that President Calvin Coolidge (known for being one of America's foremost stuffed shirts) had died. Her only question: "How could they tell?".
- Dorothy's uncle, Martin Rothschild, and his wife Lizzie, were aboard the Titanic in 1912. Lizzie survived, but Martin Rothschild did not. Martin's death was particularly hard for Dorothy's father, Henry Rothschild, and he died shortly thereafter in 1913.
- A gentle soul blessed with one of America's most acid-tongued wits, Parker was a fiercely loyal friend and, despite her reputation for personal put-downs, rarely insulted anyone to their face.
- In 1922 she had an affair with the emerging playwright Charles MacArthur, who it turned out was having multiple affairs with other women.
- Pictured on a 29¢ US commemorative postage stamp in the Literary Arts series, issued 22 August 1992.
- Profiled in book "Funny Ladies" by Stephen M. Silverman. (1999)
- Father: J. Henry Rothschild; Mother: Eliza A. Marston.
- She is nominated for the 2008 New Jersey Hall of Fame for her services and contributions to literature.
- She was inducted into the 2014 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the Arts and Letters Category.
- A self-indulgent and difficult-to-get-along-with alcoholic, Parker went through several failed marriages (and subsequent divorces) in her lifetime. Her one consistent source of companionship was a series of pet dachshund dogs, none of whom she ever trained to be housebroken.
- Subject of the song "Be My Dorothy Parker" by The Shots of Perspective.
- She was nominated for the 2012 New Jersey Hall of Fame for her contributions in the General Category.
- She was nominated for a 2013 New Jersey Hall of Fame in the General Category.
- Portrayed by Jennifer Jason Leigh in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994).
- In 2021 her book 'Men I'm Not Married To' was adapted as an opera of the same name by composer Lisa DeSpain and librettist Rachel J. Peters. It premiered virtually as part of Operas in Place and Virtual Festival of New Operas commissioned by Baldwin Wallace Conservatory Voice Performance, Cleveland Opera Theater, and On Site Opera on February 18, 2021.
- In 2014, Parker was elected to the New Jersey Hall of Fame.
- In 2016, American actress Victoria Scott donned a Halloween costume of Parker in episode 5, season 8 of Modern Family.
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