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Algonquin Round Table
ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLEALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE was a group of journalists, playwrights, actors, and writers who gathered daily at a special table in the Rose Room at the Algonquin Hotel on West Forty-fourth Street in New York City from 1919 to about 1929. Their witticisms and jokes appeared in Franklin P. Adams's column "The Conning Tower" in the New York Tribune, conveying an alluring "insider's" image of metropolitan literary and theatrical life to far-flung readers. Core members included Adams, Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, Edna Ferber, George S. Kaufman, Harpo Marx, Dorothy Parker, Robert Sherwood, Alexander Woollcott, and Harold Ross, editor of The New Yorker. BIBLIOGRAPHYBryan, J., 3d. Merry Gentlemen (and One Lady). New York: Atheneum, 1985. Gaines, James R. Wit's End: Days and Nights of the Algonquin Round Table. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1977. MinaCarson See alsoNew Yorker, The . |
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"Algonquin Round Table." Dictionary of American History. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Algonquin Round Table." Dictionary of American History. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3401800120.html "Algonquin Round Table." Dictionary of American History. 2003. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3401800120.html |
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Algonquin Round Table
Algonquin Round Table, informal meeting place in the dining room of the Algonquin Hotel (New York City), mainly from the 1920s through the 1940s, of a lively, witty group, whose participants included Franklin P. Adams, Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, Marc Connelly, Russel Crouse, George S. Kaufman, Dorothy Parker, Robert E. Sherwood, Frank Sullivan, and Alexander Woollcott.
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James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Algonquin Round Table." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Algonquin Round Table." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-AlgonquinRoundTable.html James D. Hart and and Phillip W. Leininger. "Algonquin Round Table." The Oxford Companion to American Literature. 1995. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O123-AlgonquinRoundTable.html |
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