Works
Biographies
- Free Woman: The Life and Times of Victoria Woodhull (1976)
- Eleanor of Aquitaine (1977)
- Madame Blavatsky: The Woman Behind the Myth (1980)
- Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This? (1988)
- Buster Keaton: Cut to the Chase (1995)
- The Unruly Life of Woody Allen (2000)
- Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties (2004)
- Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney (2010)
Novels
- Stealing Heaven: The Love Story of Heloise and Abelard (1979), filmed as Stealing Heaven (1988)
- Sybille (1983)
Narrative nonfiction
- Bitching (1973)
Editor/forewords
- A Journey into Dorothy Parker’s New York by Kevin C. Fitzpatrick (foreword) (2005)
- The Portable Dorothy Parker (editor, foreword) (2006)
- The Ladies of the Corridor by Dorothy Parker and Arnaud D’Usseau (editor, foreword) (2008)
- Complete Poems by Dorothy Parker (foreword) (2010)
Selected articles
- "Estate of Mind: Dorothy Parker willed her copyright to the NAACP—an organization her executor, Lillian Hellman, detested," Bookforum, (April/May 2006)
- "Close to Home," American Theatre (April 2008)
Films and documentaries
- Stealing Heaven (adapted from novel) (1988)
- Would You Kindly Direct Me to Hell? The Infamous Dorothy Parker (1994)
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