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Full List - The 2011 TIME 100. Alison Krauss and Robert Plant - Top 10 Musical Collaborations - TIME. The ALL-TIME 100. ALL-TIME 100 Movies - TIME. Full List - All-TIME 100 Best Nonfiction Books - TIME. Writing her lover’s “autobiography” proved a witty way for American author Gertrude Stein to detail her own life as Parisian writer, salon host and arts patron. Ostensibly, readers can take in the book, published in 1933, as Stein writing about Alice B. Toklas (which is what the title suggests) or as Toklas “writing” about Stein (which is what the book actually is). Either way, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas was groundbreaking in its experimentation with form: an autobiography written by another person. Many modernist masters make an appearance in Stein’s tome — among them Picasso, Hemingway and Matisse — and their influence on Stein is recounted through vivid anecdotes.

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