Living Literature Series featuring Dorothy Parker
b'Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) wrote criticism for Vogue, Vanity Fair, and later The New Yorker, which also published her poems and stories. She was legendary in New York literary and theatrical circles as a member of the Algonquin Round Table. Reports on the group\'s discussions often quoted Parker\'s derisive Round Table remarks, such as "Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses." A champion for social justice, Parker became active in the fight for civil rights. She left her estate to Martin Luther King Jr.; on his death months later, it went to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.\\n\\nAs a Chautauqua performer, Suzan King has created characterizations of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Margaret Bourke White, Eleanor Roosevelt, Abigail Adams, Georgia O\'Keeffe, and Emily Dickinson, among others. She won the 2004 Pinnacle Award for Arts and Humanities from the Tulsa Mayor\'s Commission on the Status of Women and the Tulsa Women\'s Foundation. King received her B.A. in Humanities and her M.A. in English from Oklahoma State University.'