Algonquin Round Table

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The Algonquin Round Table was a celebrated group of New York City writers, critics, and actors in the 1920s known for their sharp wit, wordplay, and influential contributions to American humor and literature.

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instanceOf cultural movement
literary circle
social group
country United States
dissolved around 1929
fieldOfWork American literature
drama
journalism
theatre criticism
genre humor
satire
hasCharacteristic journalistic influence
literary collaboration
sharp wit
urban sophistication
hasPart Alexander Woollcott
Deems Taylor
Donald Ogden Stewart
Dorothy Parker
Edna Alexander
Edna Ferber
Franklin P. Adams
George S. Kaufman
Harold Ross
Harpo Marx
Heywood Broun
Jane Grant
Marc Connelly
Morrie Ryskind
Neysa McMein
Noël Coward (visitor)
linked to: Noël Coward

Ring Lardner (associate)
linked to: Ring Lardner

Robert Benchley
Robert E. Sherwood
Ruth Gordon
Tallulah Bankhead (occasional participant)
linked to: Tallulah Bankhead
inception 1919
influenced 20th-century American satire
American humor
Broadway comedy
The New Yorker style
language English
location Algonquin Hotel
Manhattan
New York City
mainSubject wit
wordplay
meetingPlace Algonquin Hotel Rose Room
linked to: Algonquin Hotel

Algonquin Hotel dining room
linked to: Algonquin Hotel
nickname The Vicious Circle
notableWork Broadway reviews
New York Times pieces
New York World columns
linked to: New York World

The New Yorker (indirectly through founding members)
linked to: The New Yorker

Vanity Fair contributions
significantEvent daily luncheon meetings
vicious circle gatherings
timePeriod 1920s

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Robert E. Sherwood memberOf Algonquin Round Table
Dorothy Parker memberOf Algonquin Round Table
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Marc Connelly memberOf Algonquin Round Table
Edna Ferber memberOf Algonquin Round Table
Donald Ogden Stewart memberOf Algonquin Round Table
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Corey Ford memberOf Algonquin Round Table
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle mainSubject Algonquin Round Table
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Dorothy Rothschild memberOf Algonquin Round Table
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