What is The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas?
{{Infobox book | name = The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas | title_orig = | translator = | image = | caption = | author = [[Gertrude Stein]] | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United States | language = English | series = | subject = | genre = autobiography, memoir | publisher = Harcourt, Brace and Company | release_date = September 1, 1933 | english_release_date = | media_type = | pages = 310 pp | preceded_by = | followed_by = }} '''''The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas''''' is a book by [[Gertrude Stein]], written in October and November 1932 and published in 1933.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Writings 1903–1932|last=Stein|first=Gertrude|publisher=Library of America|year=1998|isbn=1-883011-40-X|location=New York|pages=924}}</ref> Written by Stein, the book pretends to be an [[autobiography]] written by [[Alice B. Toklas]], Stein's life partner. It tells the story of Toklas and Stein from Toklas' birth, through their meeting and life together in [[Paris]], to their life and Stein's work after [[World War I]]. Toklas is very present in the book, but it is mainly about Gertrude Stein and her life in Paris at the time.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/gertrude-stein/the-autobiography-of-alice-b-toklas/|title=THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS {{!}} Kirkus Reviews|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Sutherland|first=J.|date=1996|title=Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, The|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780192122711.001.0001/acref-9780192122711-e-146|access-date=February 10, 2023|website=Oxford Reference - The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English}}</ref> [[File:Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein, 1922, Man Ray.jpg|thumb|Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein in their apartment at 27 Rue de Fleurus, Paris, 1922. Photo by Man Ray.]] Modern Library ranked it in 1998 as one of the 20 greatest English-language [[Non-fiction|nonfiction]] book