The Lost Algonquin Round Table

The Legendary Writers of the Vicious Circle<br> Collected Together For the First Time<p> The Algonquin was a refuge for the brightest authors editors critics columnists artists financiers composers directors producers and actors of the times. The dining-room corner was a hot bed of raconteurs and conversationalists.<br> -Harpo Marx<p> In Jazz Age New York City no literary lights burned more brightly than those of the legendary Algonquin Round Table. Now between covers for the first time is a collection of writing by 16 members of the group an all-star gathering that took 90 years to come together. Many of these pieces have never been published before; plucked from private family collections and lost pieces from obscure periodicals.<p> ● Humor pieces by Robert Benchley Franklin P. Adams Heywood Broun Frank Sullivan and Donald Ogden Stewart.<br> ● Criticism from Dorothy Parker George S. Kaufman and Robert E. Sherwood.<br> ● Short fiction by Laurence Stallings and Pulitzer Prize-winners Edna Ferber and Margaret Leech.<br> ● Journalism from Alexander Woollcott Ruth Hale and Deems Taylor.<br> ● Poetry by Adams Marc Connelly Dorothy Parker and John V. A. Weaver.<p> With a foreword by Nat Benchley.