When it comes to expressing the pleasure and pain of being just a touch too smart to be happy, Dorothy Parker is still the champion, after all these years. Along with Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, and the rest of the Algonquin Round Table, she dominated American popular literature in the 1920s and 1930s.
Meade presents a portrait of four extraordinary writers --- Dorothy Parker, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Edna Ferber --- whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors embodied the spirit of the 1920s.
