Alissa Bennett is an essayist whose work addresses fandom, celebrity, and popular culture.

Marc Parrott (1923-1988) was the only son of Lindesay Marc Parrott and Ursula Parrott.

"Ex-Wife is every bit as engaging and thought-provoking as it was in 1929. The novel can be read as a period piece about the 1920s, the emergence of flappers and independent career women, but it is also an anatomy of a marriage and a divorce that takes a searing look at a conflicted woman . . . The novel's passages on female friendship are as profound as Patricia's efforts to become her own woman in the company of the men she desires."--Carl Rollyson "New York Sun"

"Like Fitzgerald but from a woman's perspective . . . Ex-Wife is a sharply observed, intimate account of a failed marriage, several failed love affairs, an abortion, numerous alcoholic interludes and one-night stands . .. as if Dorothy Parker, Noël Coward, and Oscar Wilde had collaborated to examine the war between the sexes in the post-Victorian era."--Joyce Carol Oates "New York Review of Books"

"Deftly crafted, wryly observed, and thoroughly unsettling . . . Caught between Victorian sexual mores and the libertinism of interwar Greenwich Village, Patricia brings a gimlet eye to the pervasive misogyny and sexual hypocrisies of her generation."--Jessica Fletcher "The Baffler
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"Take one shot of Dorothy Parker and two shots of Dawn Powell, stir briskly, add a sour cherry, and you have the intoxicating Ex-Wife."-- "Air Mail"

"As it went on I found myself more and more moved by the writer's ability to render on the page the complexity of lost love coupled with the loss of first youth, and then second youth. Quite remarkable."--Vivian Gornick

"I'm tempted to simply type out a list of quotations from this book and call it a day, adding only a 'BUY IT NOW!' button at the bottom . . . The approach [feels] too advanced even for now. How did Ursula Parrott do it? . . . We must conclude that she possessed supernatural gifts of insight, as well as a talent for acid aphorisms and peppery dialogue . . . This edition features a gorgeous introduction by Alissa Bennett . . . Read if you like: Being wicked, shopping, breakfast for dinner, bearing distress with dignity, Elizabeth Jane Howard's The Cazalet Chronicles."--Molly Young "New York Times"

"[Let us] revel in the surprising freshness of its prose . . . Ex-Wife depicted remarkable erotic freedom . . . The other thing that glows in Ex-Wife, and the biography of its author, is New York City: the lights, the fights, the freedoms, constraints and terrible costs."--Alexandra Jacobs "New York Times"