She also wrote:

Free Woman: The Life and Times of Victoria Woodhull
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Biography
Stealing Heaven (a novel about Heloise and Abelard)
Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?
The Unruly Life of Woody Allen: A Biography
Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin: Writers Running Wild in the Twenties
Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney
The Last Days of Dorothy Parker: The Extraordinary Lives of Dorothy Parker and Lillian Hellman and How Death Can Be Hell on Friendship

And more.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/24959.Marion_Meade
(reader reviews)

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/author/marion-meade/
(four Kirkus reviews)

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-features/articles/author-marion-meade-dies-at-88/

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/22/books/marion-meade-dead.html
(it's a long one)

By Richard Sandomir
Jan. 22, 2023

Marion Meade, who helped revive interest in Dorothy Parker, the celebrated writer and sardonic wit of the Algonquin Round Table, with her 1988 biography, died on Dec. 29 at her home in Manhattan. She was 88.

Her granddaughter Ashley Sprague confirmed the death. She said that Ms. Meade had recently had Covid-19, but that a cause had not been determined.

Ms. Meade’s “Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?” detailed the vibrant if difficult life of a major figure on the literary scene of the 1920s and ’30s...



Last paragraphs:

...Ms. Meade returned a few times to her best-known subject. She edited and wrote the introduction to a new edition of “The Portable Dorothy Parker” (2006). In 2014, she expanded on a 2006 Bookforum article about Mrs. Parker in a Kindle book, “The
Last Days of Dorothy Parker.”

In that book, she touched on the saga of how the urn with Mrs. Parker’s ashes ended up being stowed in Manhattan in a file cabinet belonging to the veteran New York City politician Paul O’Dwyer, who was the lawyer for the writer Lillian Hellman, the
literary executor of the Parker estate. (The urn, after a circuitous journey, was finally buried in 2020 at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.)

In 1987, Ms. Meade called Mr. O’Dwyer to say she was going to visit the cemetery in Westchester where she thought the urn had been buried. With her biography of Mrs. Parker complete and Ms. Hellman dead, Ms. Meade wanted to pay her respects.

“Oh, she’s not there,” Mr. O’Dwyer told her.

“Of course she is,” Ms. Meade said.

“No, no,” Mr. O’Dwyer said, “I’m looking right at her.”

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