Dorothy Parker
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- (1893-1967) a US writer of humorous poems and short stories. She was also a critic (= person who writes opinions about plays, films and books) for The New Yorker (1927-33), and a member of the Algonquin Round Table. Parker's best-known short story was Big Blonde (1933).“Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.”