Gertrude and Alice

Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas were inseparable for nearly 40 years. They were well known for their world-famous literary salon in Paris, which was frequented by artists like Picasso, T.S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and others. When Alice met Gertrude, she wrote, "It was Gertrude Stein who held my complete attention, as she did for all the many years I knew her until her death, and all these empty ones since then. She was a golden brown presence, burned by the Tuscan sun and with a golden glint in her warm brown hair." Their love gained international fame when Gertrude published The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.