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Dorothy Parker

This was a complicated and talented person, the main character of the book, who in many ways was jaded and world-weary but in other ways not.

Eddie Parker

This person enlisted in the Army and encountered a series of horrors as an ambulance driver on the front lines that resulted in a severe addiction to alcohol and morphine.

Alan Campbell

This person was a manager and handler who grew up with alcoholic parents.

Robert Benchley

This person is termed as a significant confidant and non-sexual soul mate. He or she also worked at Vanity Fair.

Aleck Woolcott

This person was The New York Times' drama critic and original founder of the Algonquin Round Table.

Lillian Hellman

This person had spirit and independence that embraced feminism before it was fashionable to do so.

Ernest Hemingway

This person is a very famous acquaintance that denounced poems that were...

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