Alice Babette Toklas was born in San Francisco to Ferdinand and Emma Levinsky Toklas and grew up in San Francisco and Seattle, where her father was a merchant. Her family was of the Jewish middle class, and she was educated in private schools and at...

The True Story of Alice B. Toklas: A Study of Three Autobiographies by Anna Linzie University of Iowa Press. 230 pages, $34.95 WAS ALICE B. TOKLAS really the author of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which was supposedly written...

This paper explores the symbolism of "Jewish looks" in the writing of Jewish-American Gertrude Stein (1874-1946). Beginning with Stein's early college writing about Jews as a distinct race, and her literary treatise on human categorization, The Making of Americans (written 1903-1911), I trace...

Greater than the sum of its parts … Over the past several years, Janet Malcolm has published a series of essays in The New Yorker about Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, their life together in France, especially during World War II, their writings and...

Elizabeth Edwards, wife of Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards, kicked off San Francisco's annual gay pride parade Sunday by splitting with her husband over support for legalized gay marriage."I don't know why someone else's marriage has anything to do with me," Mrs. Edwards said at...