Gertrude Stein and Allice B. Toklas (3 books set)

Gertrude Stein:  A Composite Portrait edited by Linda Simon
Gertrude Stein as remembered well by some of her very famous friends.
This book brings together for the first time the reminiscences of some of Stein's most famous friends, and adversaries, and provides an astonishing range of opinions on both the woman and her work.
Seen variously like a spoiled child of an Aztec priestess, a Rabelaisian woman or an austere monk, the genius who "swept the literary circus clear for future performances, "or the eccentric innovator with no inheritors, Stein emerges at last as a marvelously complex and engaging human being.
Paper, 192 pages, 1974
 

What is Remembered by Alice B. Toklas
The author describes her childhood, education, and thirty-nine-year relationship with Gertrude Stein and shares her impressions of famous writers and painters of the twenties.
"Alice B. Toklas remembers a great deal of pertinent and interesting material, and she has written a fascinating often brilliant book."  Carol Van Vechtne
Hardcover, 186 pages, published 1963

When You See Remember Me by W.G. Rogers
Gertrude Stein was certainly one of the most influential art collectors and literary experimentalists of the 20th Century.   A flat tire on a road in southeast Fran brought together Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and a young doughboy named W. G. Rogers.  It was the beginning of a warm thirty-year friendship that would later enable Rogers to write of a marvelous moment as Gertrud Stein's arguments with Picasso about his writing poetry, a mock bullfight-a la Hemingway - with her dog Basket, and quick retort to reporters on her American tour who asked why she didn't write the way she talked:  "Why don't you read the I write!" 
"...Gertrude Stein's personality was as clear-cut and under stable as granite.  From this affection memoir by her longtime friend, she strides forth as an unforgettable individual, but in outline, continuous in conversation  and no more incomprehensible than a mischievous child."
Paper. 189 paper, published in 1948