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Sherwood Anderson - An American novelist who visits Stein and Toklas in Paris.

Guillaume Apollinaire - A "very attractive and very interesting" friend of Stein's.

Georges Braque - Co-founder of Cubism with Pablo Picasso.

Paul Cézanne - French painter often called the Father of Modern Art.

T. S. Eliot - Writer who published The New Criterion.

Bernard Fay - Professor of the College de France and director of the National Library.

Juan Gris - Mutual friend of Stein and of Picasso.

Helene - Stein's maid in Paris.

Ernest Hemingway - American writer who meets Stein after World War I.

Henri Matisse - French painter whose work Stein and her brother Leo collect.

Fernande Olivier - Picasso's lover.

Francis Picabia - Spanish painter and poet affiliated with the Cubists.

Pablo Picasso - Spanish painter credited with pioneering cubism, collage, and assemblage.

Ezra Pound - Poet and...

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