Description: Now in paperback: The acclaimed biography of the remarkable relationship between two legendary women--Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas--that was nominated for a Lambda literary award and praised as "gossipy fun" by Publishers Weekly. 45 photographs.
Brief description: Diana Souhami was brought up in London and studied philosophy at Hull University. She has published biographies of Gluck, Gertrude Stein, Alice Keppel, Radclyffe Hall, Romaine Brooks and Edith Cavell. Her biography of Alexander Selkirk, Selkirk's Island, won the Whitbread Biography Award.
Review Quotes:
"A brilliant and witty chronicle of one of the happiest marriages in modern literary history. Not only star-studded but light-filled." -- John Richardson, author of A Life of Picasso
"Wonderfully entertaining...not many biographies can make you laugh out loud. A real treat." -- Time Out New York
"Souhami hits a true note in her ebullient introduction and sustains it throughout. Her narrative is terse and exact and her book, the story of two serious ladies, is very funny indeed." - The Sunday Times
"Perfect: deadpan, brief and witty." -- Independent
"An outrageously entertaining book." -- Daily Telegraph