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The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Through the eyes of Miss Toklas, Gertrude Stein reviews both of their lives before their meeting and during their years of companionship.

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Main Author: Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946 (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage Books, 1990.
Edition:Vintage books edition.
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Stein, Gertrude, > 1874-1946 > Friends and associates.
Toklas, Alice B. > Friends and associates.
Americans > France > Paris > History > 20th century.
Paris (France) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Authors, American > 20th century > Biography.
Autobiographies.
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Summary:Through the eyes of Miss Toklas, Gertrude Stein reviews both of their lives before their meeting and during their years of companionship.
Item Description:Reprint. Originally published: New York : Harcourt, Brace, ©1933.
Physical Description:252 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:067972463X
9780679724636
Author Notes:Famous writer Gertrude Stein was born on February 3, 1874 in Allegheny, PA and was educated at Radcliffe College and Johns Hopkins medical school.

Stein wrote Three Lives, The Making of Americans, and Tender Buttons, all of which were considered difficult for the average reader. She is most famous for her opera Four Saints in Three Acts and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which was actually an autobiography of Stein herself. With her companion Alice B. Toklas, Stein received the French government's Medaille de la Reconnaissance Francaise for theory work with the American fund for French Wounded in World War I.

Gertrude Stein died in Neuilly-ser-Seine, France on July 27, 1946.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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