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Reviewed on July 1, 2019 | Arts & Humanities
After years of toiling in obscurity as an American expat living in Paris with only a handful of influential devotees (such as Sherwood Anderson, Carl Van Vechten, and Ernest Hemingway), Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) vaulted to unexpected fame with the publication of her classic tell-all The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933). The book's widespread publicity encouraged Stein and her lifelong partner, Alice B. Toklas (1...Log In or Sign Up to Read More