#nonfiction#biography#hardcover#artists#writers#paris “It used to be said that when good Americans died, they went to Paris. If they still do, they might well hurry to a gathering presides over by Gertrude Stein, with Alice B. Toklas at her right hand, and including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Jean Cocteau, Earnest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, and Guillaume Apollinaire. For in her time, Gertrude Stein’s salon was one of the most distinguished in Paris. Artists and writers beat a path to the house at 27, rue de Fleurus. The food was good, the conversation sparkling…” An enchanting account of a critical and creative time on history.