Bill Breck (1883–1936)
Illustration of The Algonquin Round Table, as published in Shadowland, March 1923
Billy Rose Theatre Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
The Algonquin Round Table
Harold Ross and Jane Grant recruited several New Yorker contributors from the Algonquin Round Table, a group of writers, artists, critics, and performers who met for lunch every day at the Algonquin Hotel on West 44th Street. Women such as Grant, Dorothy Parker, and Edna Ferber were an invaluable part of the Round Table, but were often rendered invisible in contemporary depictions. Bill Breck’s 1923 cartoon identified the male “intellectual gods” of the table by name. Women participants were represented by a solitary figure “awe-stricken” by her surroundings. The caption describes her as “a composite of the very few members of her sex who have been privileged to penetrate this literary arcanum.”
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