Marion Meade was an American biographer and novelist best known for helping revive interest in Dorothy Parker, the celebrated writer and sardonic wit of the Algonquin Round Table, with her 1988 biography. Meade was born in Pittsburgh and attended Bethel Township High School where she edited the school paper and worked summers on a local newspaper. She went on to study journalism at Northwestern University. Subsequently she earned a master's degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism,... moreMarion Meade was an American biographer and novelist best known for helping revive interest in Dorothy Parker, the celebrated writer and sardonic wit of the Algonquin Round Table, with her 1988 biography. Meade was born in Pittsburgh and attended Bethel Township High School where she edited the school paper and worked summers on a local newspaper. She went on to study journalism at Northwestern University. Subsequently she earned a master's degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, and found her first reporting job as an assistant to Earl Wilson. She later wrote for publications like The New York Times, The Nation, The New Republic and McCall's. In 1973 she published her first novel titled Bitching which was from her involvement in the women’s liberation movement of the 1960s. From then on she had a successful career writing over 10 novels. Two of her books were adapted into films, Stealing Heaven in 1988 and Would You Kindly Direct Me to Hell? The Infamous Dorothy Parker in 1984.
