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Author Description People remember American writer <b>Alice Babette Toklas</b> as the domestic partner of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/9325.Gertrude_Stein" title="Gertrude Stein" rel="nofollow noopener">Gertrude Stein</a>; her works include cookbooks and a volume of memoirs. <br /><br />She joined as a member of the Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century. Born to a Polish army officer in a middle-class Jewish family, she attended schools in San Francisco and Seattle. For a short time, she also studied music at the University of Washington. <br />She arrived in Paris and met on 8 September 1907. <br />Together, they hosted a salon that attracted expatriates, such as <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/31488387.Ernest_Miller_Hemingway" title="Ernest Miller Hemingway" rel="nofollow noopener">Ernest Miller Hemingway</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7659.Paul_Bowles" title="Paul Bowles" rel="nofollow noopener">Paul Bowles</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/44061.Thornton_Niven_Wilder" title="Thornton Niven Wilder" rel="nofollow noopener">Thornton Niven Wilder</a>, and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/45645.Sherwood_Anderson" title="Sherwood Anderson" rel="nofollow noopener">Sherwood Anderson</a>, and avant-garde painters, including <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3253.Pablo_Picasso" title="Pablo Picasso" rel="nofollow noopener">Pablo Picasso</a>, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/118314.Henri_Matisse" title="Henri Matisse" rel="nofollow noopener">Henri Matisse</a>, and <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3245.Georges_Braque" title="Georges Braque" rel="nofollow noopener">Georges Braque</a>. <br /><br />Toklas, a background figure, acted as confidante, secretary, muse, editor, critic, and general organizer and chiefly living in the shadow until she published in 1933 under the teasing title <i> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q=The%20Autobiography%20of%20Alice%20Babette%20Toklas" title="The Autobiography of Alice Babette Toklas" rel="nofollow noopener">The Autobiography of Alice Babette Toklas</a> </i>, bestselling book. <br /><br />Source: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_B._Toklas" rel="nofollow noopener">Wikipedia</a>

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