Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

$18.00 at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Selected for the July 30, 2026  SFMOMA Works on Paper Book Club   "Largely to amuse herself, [ Gertrude Stein ] wrote The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in 1932…using as a sounding board her companion Miss Toklas, who had been with her for twenty-five years. It has been said that the writing takes on very much Miss Toklas’ conversational style, and while this is true the style is still a variant of Miss Stein’s conversation style. …She usually insisted that writing is an entirely different thing from…