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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Author Gertrude Stein
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On sale Mar 17, 1990 | 256 Pages | 978-0-679-72463-6
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"Largely to amuse herself, [Gertrude Stein] wrote The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas...using as a sounding board her companion Miss Toklas, who had been with her for twenty-five years. The book is full of the most lucid and shapely anecdotes, told in a purer and more closely fitting prose...than even Gide or Hemingway have ever commanded."--Donald Sutherland

"The record of nearly thirty years of life in a fantastically changing Paris and else where--a life passed in the most stimulating and important society."--Louis Bromfield
  • WINNER
    ALA Best Books for Young Adults
  • WINNER
    ALA Best Books for Young Adults
Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on February 3, 1874. At Radcliffe College she studied under William James, who remained her lifelong friend, and then went to Johns Hopkins to study medicine. Abandoning her studies, she moved to Paris with her brother Leo in 1903. At 27 rue de Fleurus, Gertrude Stein lived with Alice B. Toklas, who would remain her companion for 40 years. Not only was she an innovator in literature and a supporter of modern poetry and art, she was the friend and mentor of those who visited her at her now-famous home: Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Jean Cocteau, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, and Guillaume Apollinaire. Her body of work include Three Lives, Tender Buttons, The Making of Americans, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. View titles by Gertrude Stein

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"Largely to amuse herself, [Gertrude Stein] wrote The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas...using as a sounding board her companion Miss Toklas, who had been with her for twenty-five years. The book is full of the most lucid and shapely anecdotes, told in a purer and more closely fitting prose...than even Gide or Hemingway have ever commanded."--Donald Sutherland

"The record of nearly thirty years of life in a fantastically changing Paris and else where--a life passed in the most stimulating and important society."--Louis Bromfield

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  • WINNER
    ALA Best Books for Young Adults
  • WINNER
    ALA Best Books for Young Adults

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Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on February 3, 1874. At Radcliffe College she studied under William James, who remained her lifelong friend, and then went to Johns Hopkins to study medicine. Abandoning her studies, she moved to Paris with her brother Leo in 1903. At 27 rue de Fleurus, Gertrude Stein lived with Alice B. Toklas, who would remain her companion for 40 years. Not only was she an innovator in literature and a supporter of modern poetry and art, she was the friend and mentor of those who visited her at her now-famous home: Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Jean Cocteau, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, and Guillaume Apollinaire. Her body of work include Three Lives, Tender Buttons, The Making of Americans, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. View titles by Gertrude Stein

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