This author wrote a short story in which the plain title character is pursuedby the handsome John Marble, causing her mother to anticipate the failure of theirmarriage. In addition to telling about the widow Mrs. Ewing in (+) Lolita, this writertold of a character who gave his wife a black eye and left her for two days when she joked about it while drinking. The protagonist of that story toasts drinks with her husband say
This author wrote a short story in which the plain title character is pursuedby the handsome John Marble, causing her mother to anticipate the failure of theirmarriage. In addition to telling about the widow Mrs. Ewing in (+) Lolita, this writertold of a character who gave his wife a black eye and left her for two days when she joked about it while drinking. The protagonist of that story toasts drinks with her husband saying "Here's mud in your eye!". She spends nights at (*) Jimmy's with her boyfriends when that husband, Herbie, leaves her for Detroit. That title character travels to New Jersey to obtain two vials of veronal, but her attempt at suicide with them is unsuccessful. For ten points, name this author who created Hazel Morse in Big Blonde, a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table.
This author wrote a short story in which the plain title character is pursuedby the handsome John Marble, causing her mother to anticipate the failure of theirmarriage.
Dorothy Parker