Whither Dorothy Parker's Ashes?

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JOHN YDSTIE
Weekend Edition - Saturday (NPR)
06-17-2006
Whither Dorothy Parker's Ashes?

Host: JOHN YDSTIE
Time: 13:00-14:00 PM

JOHN YDSTIE, host:

What's next for Dorothy Parker? The sharp-tongued writer has been dead for nearly 40 years, but that hasn't made her situation any less surprising. Ms. Parker's literary executor, the playwright Lillian Hellman, never claimed her ashes from the crematorium. So Ms. Parker sat and sat and sat for 15 years in a filing cabinet.

She had wanted her estate, ashes and all, to go to Martin Luther King Jr. and the NAACP. In 1988, the NAACP built a memorial ...

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