She visited Paris many times, the first being with her friends Michael (brother of Gertrude Stein) and Sarah Stein. Another one of Levy’s passions was traveling. She also wrote for The Wave with notable writers such as Jack London and Frank Norris. Instead, she graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1886 and became a prominent writer for popular San Francisco publications, such as the San Francisco Call. However, the intellectually inclined Levy was hesitant to marry early. Additionally, young women such as Levy were expected to marry well-off men, which generated additional societal expectations. The first part of her autobiography, 920 O’Farrell Street, chronicles her childhood in an upper-middle-class San Francisco neighborhood. citizen to win a Nobel Prize for science), lived with her. She was born into an upper-middle-class Jewish family and raised in San Francisco. Toklas, and an acquaintance of Gertrude Stein. Levy was also an avid art collector, a girlhood friend of Alice B. Harriet Lane Levy (29 March 1866–15 September 1950) is a California writer best known for her memoir, 920 O’Farrell Street. Harriet Levy (left) and Alice B Toklas, in France 1909.
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