Characters from The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

Character Descriptions

This section provides a short description of all the major characters in the book. This can be printed out as a study guide for students, used as a "key" for leading a class discussion, or you can jump to the quiz/homework section to find worksheets that incorporate these descriptions into a variety of question formats.

Characters

Sherwood Anderson - An American novelist who visits Stein and Toklas in Paris.

Guillaume Apollinaire - A "very attractive and very interesting" friend of Stein's.

Georges Braque - Co-founder of Cubism with Pablo Picasso.

Paul Cézanne - French painter often called the Father of Modern Art.

T. S. Eliot - Writer who published The New Criterion.

Bernard Fay - Professor of the College de France and director of the National Library.

Juan Gris - Mutual friend of Stein and of Picasso.

Helene - Stein's maid in Paris.

Ernest Hemingway - American writer who...
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