The late playwright Win Wells had considerable resources from which to draw as he wrote Gertrude Stein and a Companion, a play that imagines a reminiscing reunion between Stein and Alice B. Toklas ...

“I’m going to Alice B. Toklas’ for dinner,” I told my calendar. (I hardly ever write things down anymore; I speak them into my phone.) Not time-traveling to the famous Parisian salon of Alice B.

WHAT Is REMEMBERED (186 pp.)—Alice B. Toklas—Holt, Rineharf & Winston ($4). “About six weeks ago Gertrude Stein said, it does not look to me as if you were ever going to write that autobiography. You ...

An Afterlife’ by Francesca Wade. Francesca Wade’s latest book “can be read as a biographical detective story that fills in ...

Fifty years after the artist’s death, a critic wrestles with her mixed feelings. By Deborah Solomon The actor David Greenspan is a tour-de-force, taking on all the roles of Gertrude Stein and Virgil ...

EVERYBODY’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY — Gertrude Stein—Random House ($3). When The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas became a best seller (1933), Gertrude Stein discovered that it was ”very nice being a celebrity ...

Janet Malcolm once remarked that most well-read people have not read Gertrude Stein’s “The Making of Americans.” Famously inscrutable, Stein’s opus exceeds nine hundred pages and sets out to tell the ...

Who was Gertrude Stein? Should she be remembered as a pioneering writer? An early and insightful collector of modern art? A den mother to a 1920s cohort of creatives—Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Joyce—for ...

When I was six, my maiden aunt Eva gave me a first edition of “The World Is Round,” by Gertrude Stein. Eva, who worked in a used bookstore, was the only bohemian in our family, and she revered Stein.