What is the name of Dorothy Parkers circle club?
The Table’s official name came from Parker’s almost daily lunch meetings, at the Algonquin Hotel, with co-founding members Robert Charles Benchley [September 5, 1889-November 21, 1945] and Robert Emmet Sherwood [April 4, 1896-November 14, 1955]. Membership expanded to include newspaper columnists Franklin Pierce Adams [November 15, 1881-March 23, 1960] and Alexander Humphreys Woollcott [January 19, 1887-January 23, 1943]. The circle widened even further to include well-known actors, critics, and writers who enjoyed wisecracks, witty remarks, and woodplays. The meeting topics often became column topics in newspapers throughout the United States. The Table met for almost a decade, 1919-about 1929.
