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Everybody's Autobiography

In 1937, Gertrude Stein wrote a sequel to The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, but this darker and more complex work was long misunderstood and neglected. An account of her experiences in the wake of having authored a bestseller, Everybody's Autobiographyis as funny and engaging as The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, but it is also a meditation on the meaning of success and identity in America. Everybody's Autobiographyis Stein at her most accessible and her most serious, and is among her most popular books.

Subject
biography
Setting
20th century
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 344 pages
Form
poetry

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