Algonquin Round Table - Dorothy Parker and Literary Circle

The Algonquin Round Table met at the Algonquin Hotel's restaurant and Oak Room at 59 West 44th Street during the 1920s; regular participants included Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, and Alexander Woollcott. The group's lunchtime gatherings became a noted center of literary and theatrical social life in New York City and were widely reported in contemporary newspapers. The hotel's connection to the Round Table and its participants is recorded in literary histories and the hotel's archival materials. The Algonquin continues to identify the Round Table era as a central part of its historic identity.