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Harriet Lane Levy
HARRIET LANE LEVY (1867-1950) was a Californian writer best known for her memoir, 920 O’Farrell Street. She was also an avid art collector, a girlhood friend of Alice B. Toklas, and an acquaintance...view moreHARRIET LANE LEVY (1867-1950) was a Californian writer best known for her memoir, 920 O’Farrell Street. She was also an avid art collector, a girlhood friend of Alice B. Toklas, and an acquaintance of Gertrude Stein.
Born into an upper-middle-class Jewish family and raised in San Francisco, she graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1886 and became a prominent writer for San Francisco publications, such as the San Francisco Call. She also wrote for The Wave alongside other notable writers such as Jack London and Frank Norris.
A passionate traveller, she visited Paris many times and resided there with Toklas for two years. In 1910, she resettled in San Francisco, at the age of 47, and continued to live independently by pursuing her intellectual interests, such as psychology and Christian Science.
She died in 1950.view less