As a cultural figure, Stein has too often been relegated to the margins. This beguiling biography reasserts her legacy ...

Francesca Wade’s Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, exhaustively researched and beautifully written, is a masterpiece of biography ...

When Leo Stein first saw Woman with a Hat ... A split with Leo, who loathed Gertrude’s writing, was unavoidable. It came in 1913, he wrote to a friend, because “it was of course a serious ...

Gertrude Stein has since become legend ... kept a diary reminiscent of her daughter's long-winded and oversimplified writing. Gertrude's childhood, while not precisely happy or secure, was ...