On this day in 1893, Dorothy Parker was born in New York City, to Henry and Eliza Rothschild ("My God, no dear! We'd never even heard of those Rothschilds"). Her birth was two months premature, allowing her to say that it was the last time she was early for anything; her early writing was a "following in the exquisite footsteps of Edna St. Vincent Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers."
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