Where was the author of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas born?
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The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas is a 1933 book by Gertrude Stein, written in the guise of an autobiography authored by Alice B. Toklas, her life partner. In 1998, Modern Library ranked it as one of the 20 greatest English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century.
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Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Henri Matisse, would meet.
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Arnold Rampersad Arnold Rampersad (born 13 November 1941) is a biographer and literary critic, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago and moved to the US in 1965. The first volume (1986) of his "Life of Langston Hughes" was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and his "Ralph Ellison: A Biography" was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award.
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Lewis Frumkes Lewis Frumkes is an American educator, humorist and writer. He was born in Brooklyn, New York and attended a number of institutions such as New York University, Trinity College, Columbia University, and Pace University. He earned his B.A. and master's degree in English and philosophy from New York University
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Peter A. Balaskas Peter A. Balaskas (Born 1969 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American author of speculative fiction.
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Barbara Holland Barbara Murray Holland (April 5, 1933 – September 7, 2010) was an American author who wrote in defense of such modern-day vices as cursing, drinking, eating fatty food and smoking cigarettes, as well as a memoir of her time spent growing up in Chevy Chase, Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
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Frances Blogg Frances Chesterton, born Frances Alice Blogg (1869–1938) was an English author of verse, songs and school drama. She was the wife of G.K. Chesterton and had a large role in his career as amanuensis and personal manager.
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Peter Lerangis Peter Duncan Lerangis (born in Brooklyn, New York in 1955) is an American author of children's and young adult fiction, best known for his "Seven Wonders" series.
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Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ( ; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll ( ), was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", its sequel "Through the Looking-Glass", which includes the poem "Jabberwocky", and the poem "The Hunting of the Snark", all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic and fantasy. There are societies in many parts of the world dedicated to the enjoyment and promotion of his works and the investigation of his life.
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Nikolai Tolstoy Count Nikolai Dmitrievich Tolstoy-Miloslavsky (Russian: Николай Дмитриевич Толстой-Милославский ; born 23 June 1935) is an Anglo-Russian author who writes under the name Nikolai Tolstoy. A member of the Tolstoy family, he is a former parliamentary candidate of the UK Independence Party.
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John Kendrick Bangs John Kendrick Bangs (May 27, 1862 – January 21, 1922) was an American author, humorist, editor and satirist.
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Keith W. Olson Keith W. Olson (born 4 August 1931) is an award winning American author, historian and lecturer specializing twentieth-century history in the United States. He was born in Poughkeepsie, New York and attended Franklin D. Roosevelt High School in nearby Hyde Park. Olson later attended the State University at Albany and received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
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Thomas Krag Thomas Peter Krag (28 July 1868 – 13 March 1913) was a Norwegian novelist, playwright and writer of short stories. He was born in Kragerø, grew up in Kristiansand, and settled in Copenhagen. Some of his books were bestsellers in Denmark when they were published, but today Krag is more or less sunk into oblivion.
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Leland Stanford Jr. Leland Stanford Jr. (May 14, 1868 – March 13, 1884), known as Leland DeWitt Stanford until age nine, is the namesake of Stanford University, adjacent to Palo Alto, California, United States.
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Kate Dickinson Sweetser Kate Dickinson Sweetser (1870-1939) was an American author known in her time for writing juvenile fiction and compilations. She was born in New York City to Charles H. and Mary N. Sweetser. Her great-grandfather, Samuel Dickinson, was one of the founders of Amherst College in Massachusetts; she was also the cousin of poet Emily Dickinson.
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Belva Plain Belva Plain (October 9, 1915 – October 12, 2010), née Offenberg, was a best-selling American author of mainstream fiction. She was born in New York City.
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Eliza Suggs Elizabeth Gertrude Suggs (December 11, 1876 – January 29, 1908) was a 19th-century American author, born to former slaves. Physically impaired with Osteogenesis imperfecta, she was able to gain an education and became known as a temperance lecturer. The little that is known about Eliza Suggs can be found in her book, "Shadow and Sunshine", published in 1906.
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Howard M. Brier Howard Maxwell Brier (born 20 March 1903, in River Falls, Wisconsin; d. Oct. 1969, Seattle, Washington) was an American fiction author who wrote primarily adventure and mystery books for teens.
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Mary Hastings Bradley Mary Hastings Bradley (April 19, 1882 in Chicago – October 25, 1976) was a traveler and author. She was the mother of author Alice Sheldon ("James Tiptree, Jr.").
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Ella Sterling Mighels Ella Sterling Mighels (May 5, 1853 – December 10, 1934) (née: Ella Sterling Clark; during first marriage: Ella Sterling Cummins; pen name: Aurora Esmeralda) was a California pioneer, author and literary historian. She was born in Mormon Island, California, but grew up in the town of Aurora, Esmeralda County, Nevada, leading her to adopt the pen name, "Aurora Esmeralda". She founded the California Literature Society (1913), and was named the "First Literary Historian of California" (1919). She died in San Francisco, and is buried in Oakland, California at the Mountain View Cemetery.
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Helen Epstein Helen Epstein is an American writer of memoir, journalism and biography who lives in Lexington, Massachusetts, United States.
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K. C. Constantine K. C. Constantine (a pseudonym for Carl Constantine Kosak; born 1934 in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania) is an American mystery author.