In Her Own Time... Dorothy Hill Parker: 1909 - 2003 By: Constance Brady About the Author Constance Brady lives in beautiful southeastern Ohio, in the historic river town of Marietta - the first permanent settlement in the northwest territory. Brady attended Marietta College and completed her doctoral studies at the Ohio State University. For thirty years, Brady worked as a psychologist, and her only hope is that she was able to make meaningful differences in the lives of so many disadvantaged children. Brady has two wonderful sons and three beautiful grandchildren. Now that she is retired, Brady spends time playing the cello and performing with several local music groups. She is an enthusiastic dragon boater and mentor to young Asian women attending Marietta College. Brady enjoys yoga classes, fitness work, and hiking in the Appalachian foothills. She studies prehistoric Adena and Hopewell Indian cultures from this area, collects pre-war baseball cards, and follows her never-ending fascination with Civil War history, especially the Battle of Gettysburg.

Marion Meade's engrossing and comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth century's most captivating women In this lively, absorbing biography, Marion Meade illuminates both the charm and the dark side of Dorothy Parker, exploring her days of wicked wittiness at the Algonquin Round Table with the likes of Robert Benchley, George Kaufman, and Harold Ross, and in Hollywood with S. J. Perelman, William Faulkner, and Lillian Hellman. At the dazzling center of it all, Meade gives us the flamboyant, self-destructive, and brilliant Dorothy Parker. This edition features a new afterword by Marion Meade.

Anonymous in Their Own Names recounts the lives of three women who, while working as their husbands' uncredited professional partners, had a profound and enduring impact on the media in the first half of the twentieth century. With her husband, Edward L. Bernays, Doris E. Fleischman helped found and form the field of public relations. Ruth Hale helped her husband, Heywood Broun, become one of the most popular and influential newspaper columnists of the 1920s and 1930s. In 1925 Jane Grant and her husband, Harold Ross, started the New Yorker magazine. Yet these women's achievements have been invisible to countless authors who have written about their husbands. This invisibility is especially ironic given that all three were feminists who kept their birth names when they married as a sign of their equality with their husbands, then battled the government and societal norms to retain their names. Hale and Grant so believed in this cause that in 1921 they founded the Lucy Stone League to help other women keep their names, and Grant and Fleischman revived the league in 1950. This was the same year Grant and her second husband, William Harris, founded White Flower Farm, pioneering at that time and today one of the country's most celebrated commercial nurseries. Despite strikingly different personalities, the three women were friends and lived in overlapping, immensely stimulating New York City circles. Susan Henry explores their pivotal roles in their husbands' extraordinary success and much more, including their problematic marriages and their strategies for overcoming barriers that thwarted many of their contemporaries.