"I wanna be a lion," Gertrude Stein announced to her brother Leo. So she followed him to Cambridge, and, in 1893, registered at the "Harvard Annex." Gertrude Stein has since become legend.

Janet Malcolm's search for the real Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas exposes some hard truths about the duo and biography itself. By Christine Smallwood Published September 27, 2007 11:23AM (EDT) ...

At 18, the future anchorman writes of the novelist's comfortable shoes, close-cropped hair and of the rumours of a war that would later launch his career ...

Gertrude Stein, whose family prospered in the San Francisco real estate market and streetcar business late in the 19th century, used her money to buy paintings by Matisse and Picasso long before ...

Gertrude Stein at Radcliffe: Most ... even casual acquaintances she talked to on long walks we used to ... It is easy to see her as she was then, hair pulled back in an untidy bun, skirt ...