 Despite the title, it was actually Stein's autobiography.The style was quite similar to that of "The Alice B. Toklas Cookbook", which was written by Toklas.Several of Stein's writings have been set to music by composers, including Virgil Thomson's operas "Four Saints in Three Acts" and "The Mother of Us All", and James Tenney's setting of "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" as a canon dedicated to Philip Corner, beginning with "a" on an upbeat and continuing so that each repetition shuffles the words, e.g.