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Janet Flanner,

James Thurber , who died in 1961, was a cartoonist, a writer, a journalist, and a playwright.

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Janet Flanner, James Thurber, and Harold Ross recount an average day with the author Gertrude Stein and her partner Alice B. Toklas, from morning routines to country drives.