Talks under way to move the ashes of famed New Yorker writer Dorothy Parker [View all]

from her Baltimore resting place.

'Dorothy Parker just can’t rest in peace.

The ashes of the wisecracking New York writer have been shelved in the obscurity of a lawyer’s office. Then came proposals to sprinkle her remains in the Hudson River or paint them into art. Finally, her ashes were interred beneath a plaque in a Baltimore business park, for posterity.

Well, almost.

Her caretakers are planning to exhume and move again what’s left of the famously irreverent writer. She suggested as her epitaph: Excuse my dust.

“Her legacy means a lot. She’s been at 4805 [Mt. Hope Drive] for a number of years. It’s important to us that we do this right,” said Aba Blankson, spokeswoman for the national office of the NAACP, headquartered for decades at that address in the business park. Parker’s ashes have been buried there 31 years.'>>>

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