The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

📕 Paris before 1914 - the artistic capital of the world - Picasso, Apollinaire, Matisse, Braque, they all knew Gertrude Stein and visited the atelier at 27 Rue de Fleurus. The War is a hilariously depicted interlude of ambulance driving in a model "T" Ford. And afterwards, the American "invasion" - Eliot, Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald - and once again Gertrude Stein at the heart of things. The Autobiography of Alice B.Toklas is in fact Gertrude Stein's own autobiography. It contains a great deal of her artistic philosophy and theories of writing. But, above all, it stands as the most articulate and entertaining "American in Paris" book ever written.