Parker, Lore

Lore Lionel Parker worked as a copywriter for a number of advertising agencies, and with many of the key creative managers and art directors during what has come to be called the creative revolution in modern advertising: Bill Bernbach, Gene Federico, Bob Gage, Helmut Krone, Phyllis Robinson, Bert Steinhauser, and Bill Taubin. Early in her career, she was known by her maiden name, Lore Lionel, but later by her married name, Lore Parker.

Of her life, Parker writes: I was born in 1926 in Leipzig, Germany, and already as a child wrote poetry--in German, of course. Then came Hitler, the ever-worsening persecution of German Jews, and finally in 1939, my family's hair-breadth escape to England. We arrived penniless, but my brother and I were beneficiaries of Britain's Kindertransport initiative. The British Government had undertaken to accept several thousand Jewish children from Germany and Austria, and place them in the homes of British families who had volunteered to temporarily adopt them. I was adopted by a Girls' High School in the North of England, and lived with the Headmistress, the English mistress, and the Latin mistress in the house they shared. Soon I was writing poems, short stories, and prize-winning essays in English. I had fallen in love with the English language.

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