The Biography of Alice B. Toklas
"She was cook, critic, publisher, lover, and muse to one of the most celebrated women of letters in this century. This first biography of Gertrude Stein's companion, Alice B. Toklas, takes us from her childhood in San Francisco through her instant attraction and forty year devotion to the women she believed to be a genius. Toklas emerges as a formidable personality, choosing and rejecting Gertrude's friends from their brilliant coterie: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Pound, Picasso, Matisse, and many more. Author Linda Simon has women a deeply affecting portrait of the women 'married' to a grat literary pathfinder - a relationship that would help to shape the course of the arts in modern times" --back cover.