Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
When she died in 1967, Dorothy Parker left her estate to Martin Luther King Jr.! (Source.)
Parker co-founded the Screen Writer's Guild. (Source.)
Dorothy Parker was twice nominated for an Oscar for her work as a screenplay writer. In 1938 she was nominated for A Star is Born (1937) and in 1948 for Smash-Up: the Story of a Woman. (Source.)
There is a plaque dedicated to Dorothy Parker outside the NAACP's headquarters in Baltimore. (Source.)
Dorothy Parker was married three times, twice to the same guy. (Source.)