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Dorothy Parker Caustic Wit Dies at 73 in New York
Dorothy Parker, renowned writer and wit, died Wednesday at a New York hotel at age 73. A West End, New Jersey native, Parker rose from Vogue captions to Vanity Fair and The New Yorker, winning the O Henry Award in 1929 for The Little Blonde. She collaborated on films and plays, including A Star Is Born and Close Harmony, and was famed for sharp epigrams such as Excuse my dust.
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