Gertrude Stein writes about herself from the point of view of her partner, Alice B. Toklas. In a tone that is at once conversational, revealing, witty, and gossipy, Stein exposes a generation of writers and artists who comprised her salon in Paris, including Matisse, Picasso, Hemingway, Ezra Pound, Fitzgerald, Louis Bromfield, Sherwood Anderson, and James Joyce.