Dorothy Parker: Tribute to a Witty Demise; brass, nuGold, vintage typewriter keys, #2 pencil, steel pin-stem wire. Carolyn Buss 2012 |
Dorothy Parker: Tribute to a Witty Demise; brass, nuGold, vintage typewriter keys, #2 pencil, steel pin-stem wire. Carolyn Buss 2012 |
Although she was published, talented and popular, she was not happy. Drinking and depressed, she had tried to kill herself two confirmed times, and supposedly a few more. Excuse My Dust is something she joked about having put on her tombstone once with a colleague; there is now a plaque with her name and those words on it.
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