During the 1920s, she was an unconventional figure in Paris, being acquainted or indeed intimate with Ernest Hemingway. James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Beach and Berenice Abbott.
Prior to and during World War II. she and Alice B. Toklas were instrumental in helping hundreds of mainly Jewish refugees ecape from the Nazis.
Although she had entered into a marrigae of convenience with the American author Robert McAlmon in 1921, her real partner was the poet Hilda Doolittle (H.D).
Her works include: