A Portrait in Poems: The Storied Life of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas
Evie Robillard loves traveling to Paris and hopes to return to the city soon Reading books by or about the people who've made Paris such a memorable place to live is one of her favorite things to do A former children's librarian Evie is the mother of two grown sons she lives in Madison Wisconsin and also spends a lot of time on her dear friend Michael's nearby farm Rachel Katstaller is a children's book illustrator from El Salvador a tiny country in the tropics of Central America She now lives and works from a studio perched in the Austrian Alps where she daydreams about eating croissants in Paris Her cat Hemingway was named after a famous writer who was once mentored by Gertrude Stein
Table of Contents 27 Rue de Fleurus Picasso Paints a Portrait Saturday Evenings The Room with all the paintings Gertrude Stein the Genius A Dog Named Basket Gertrude Alice Basket in a Book After Time Line Snapshots Sources Author's Note
writers have to have two countries the one where they belong and the one in which they live really Gertrude Stein Paris France
27 RUE DE FLEURUS The next time you go to Paris you might visit this big green spot on your map the Luxembourg Gardens or Jardin du Luxembourg And right there in the middle of the garden is an eight sided pond where you can rent a tiny sailboat and set it adrift over and over again
