Parker died on June 7, 1967, in New York City.
Dorothy Parker passed away from a heart attack on June 7, 1967, at the Volney Hotel in New York City. Even in death, her legacy as a pioneering wit and adept chronicler of human foibles endures within literary studies, spoken of in the same breath as other 20th-century greats who defined the written word and its power to transcend time, offering perennial reflections on human nature and modern society.