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Dudrea Parker
1883–1972
Best known for the 1921 collection Pig Iron, this Baltimore writer moved between fiction, poetry, and a lifelong passion for art, design, and collecting. Her life was also closely tied to The Cloisters, the Gothic Revival house and museum she and her husband created in Maryland.
1 Audiobook
Pig iron : Short stories
by Dudrea Parker
About the author
Born in 1883, Dudrea Parker was an American writer whose surviving published work includes Pig Iron: Short Stories, issued in 1921. Library and ebook records also connect her name with the form "G. Dudrea Parker" and "Mrs. Sumner Parker."
She is remembered not only for writing but also for the remarkable life she built with her husband, Sumner A. Parker. Together they spent decades collecting art and architectural pieces and shaping The Cloisters in Lutherville, Maryland, a Gothic Revival home created as both a residence and a place to share those collections.
Parker died in 1972. Through her book and through The Cloisters, she left behind a picture of a creative life that joined literature, collecting, design, and a deep affection for history.