- Algonquin Round Table
- History of the Algonquin Round Table and its group of writers and actor who gathered around it for lunch and wisecracks. - Algonquin Round Table.org
- Official site of the Vicious Circle of the Algonquin Round Table, a group of journalists, editors, actors and press agents that met on a regular basis at the Algonquin Hotel in New York. - American Masters: Algonquin Round Table
- Includes a series of anecdotes featuring the Round Table habitues. - Bankhead, Tallulah
- Fansite with pictures and Tallulahisms like her famous "Hello, dahling." - Benchley, Robert (1889-1945)@
- Find sites for Robert Benchley, the American humorist, drama critic, and actor. Sites offer biography, quotes, photos, film appearances, credits, short films, and radio rantings of the writer and founder member of Algonquin Round Table.
- Celebrity Caricature in America: Algonquin Round Table
- Portraits that reflect the piquant humour of this urbane group. - Connelly, Marc (1890-1980)@
- Find sites for Marc Connelly, the American humorist-playwright and one of the wittiest members of Algonquin Round Table. Sites feature biography, film and television credits, film reviews, and theatre credits for the Pulitzer Prize winner who wrote The Green Pastures, a re-telling of Old Testament.
- Ferber, Edna (1887-1968)@
- Learn about Edna Ferber, the American playwright and member of Algonquin Round Table. Sites offer biography, photos, quotes, film and TV credits, Broadway productions, and online texts of the works of the Pulitzer Prize winner who was also considered the greatest American woman novelist of her day.
- Grant, Jane (1892-1972)
- User-created biograpy tracing the life and legacy of Jane Grant, the Twentieth Century feminist and Lucy Stoner, a member of the Algonquin Round Table, and co-founder of The New Yorker magazine. Includes background on Grant's husband Harold Ross. - Kaufman, George S. (1889-1961)@
- Learn about George Kaufman, the American playwright-director and a key member of Algonquin Round Table who influenced 20th century American comedy. Sites offer biography, film and TV credits, and Broadway credits for the Pulitzer Prize winner whose works include You Can't Take it With You, Once in a Lifetime, and The Man Who Came to Dinner.
- Mankiewicz, Herman J. (1897-1953)@
- Find sites for Herman J. Mankiewicz, the legendary Hollywood screenwriter who was a member of the Algonquin Round Table. Sites feature biography, filmography, and the script for the film Citizen Kane written by the American storyteller in collaboration with Orson Welles.
- Parker, Dorothy (1893-1967)@
- Find sites for Dorothy Parker or Dottie, one of the primary members of the renowned Algonquin Round Table. Sites include biography, quotes, quips, poems, audio clips, and film credits of the American writer and poet known for her caustic wisecracks at urban foibles.
- Wikipedia: Algonquin Round Table
- User-created history of the group of New York writers and wits who influenced American culture traded quips throughout the 1920s.
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