Seward Collins
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Seward Bishop Collins was an American New York socialite and publisher. By the end of the 1920s, he was a self-described fascist.
Collins from his 1917 yearbook from The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania
Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker was an American poet, literary critic and writer of fiction. Based in New York, she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
Seward Collins
…Princeton University. Collins entered New York's literary life in 1926, as a bon vivant. He knew many literary giants of his day, had an affair with Dorothy Parker, and amassed a large collection of erotica. His bookstore, The American Review Bookshop, was at 231 West 58th Street in New York City. It carried many…
Parker, c. 1910s–1920s
Cover of the first edition of Enough Rope (1926)
Plaque at Parker's birthplace