TALES OF LOHR: GAIL CROWTHER'S "DOROTHY PARKER IN HOLLYWOOD"

On a great wit's decades-long lost weekend; plus, the word is "Rosebud" for "Factory Roll Call"

English writer Gail Crowther is rapidly emerging as one of our preeminent contemporary anatomists of the turmoils and graces of what are commonly, contemptuously referred to as “difficult women.” Her particular area of expertise is the triumphant and troubled lives of 20th-century women of letters, having penned three studies of Sylvia Plath, the most r…