Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.

D. Toklas on September 8 1907 on Toklas' first day in Paris at Sarah and Michael Stein's apartment. Toklas which became a literary bestseller.

". The advent of this book elevated Stein from the relative obscurity of cult literary figure into the light of mainstream attention. She was born in West Allegheny (Pittsburgh) Pennsylvania raised in Oakland California and moved to Paris in 1903 making France her home for the remainder of her life.