Alice B. Toklas

...to concentration camps in Germany. Despite his anti-Semitism, Fay, who was suspected of being as a Gestapo agent for much of the occupation, had protected Stein and Alice B. Toklas during the time. Stein wrote a letter on Fay's behalf...

In this article: Bernard Fay, Gertrude Stein, Second World War, Harvard, Benjamin Franklin Washington, Virgil Thomson, George Washington, and Franklin D. Roosevelt

...snag the interview with Ms. Stein, whom he approached at her hotel on her first trip to Texas, accompanied by her traveling companion, Alice B. Toklas. " Why can't the New York Times acknowledge after 75 years that Stein and Toklas were a...

In this article: Walter Cronkite, Gertrude Stein, University of Texas at Austin, NASA, and Texas

...dark house. In the course of her research, Malcolm explores Stein and Toklas s peculiar relation to their Jewishness during the war and delves into their friendship with a French anti-Semite and collaborator who protected them. She also...

In this article: Gertrude Stein, Janet Malcolm, Sandwich, Sylvia Plath, Katie Roiphe, and Paris

...BY JANET MALCOLM (Yale, AGBP7.99) JANET Malcolm's playful dual biography examines the relationship between the French-domiciled American writer, Gertrude Stein, and her lover of 40 years, Alice B Toklas. It questions the myth of genius and...

In this article: Gertrude Stein, Alice B Toklas, First World War, and Yale

...in the course of which he also test-drove Renaults. Using his taxi, Cook became Stein's driving instructor, so that she and Toklas could transport supplies for the French war effort. During this same time period, Cook may also have become...

In this article: William Edwards Cook, Gertrude Stein, Le Corbusier, Paris, Jacques Lipchitz, World War I, Balearic Islands, and Majorca

...in 1950. Levy was the subject of one of Gertrude Stein's early word portraits, and the subject of much effort on the part of Toklas and Stein to return Levy to San Fransciso sans Alice B. Toklas, her original traveling companion. (Stein,...

In this article: Harriet Lane Levy, Gertrude Stein, San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Paris, and University of California at Berkeley

...meet with Gertrude's editor, leaving Mildred Aldrich alone in Paris. Gertrude and Alice are first in England, then go briefly to France to rescue Gertrude's writings. They then live in Spain for a while and eventually move back to France.

In this article: Gertrude Stein, Henri Matisse, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Paris, Pablo Picasso, Leo Stein, and Guillaume Apollinaire

...with the Vichy regime and had connections to the Gestapo. When Fay was sentenced to hard labor for life after the war, Gertrude and Alice campaigned for his release. Several years later, Alice would contribute money to Fay's escape...

In this article: Gertrude Stein, Leo Stein, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cezanne, Henri Matisse, Paris, Judy Grahn, Juan Gris, and Alice B. Toklas Cookbook