While writing Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, a biography of the American writer whose name now immediately evokes the golden age of 1920s Paris, I often felt like a detective, searching through the ...

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Gertrude Stein and her literary rival. Stein’s struggles were amplified by Joyce’s triumphs – but they both shared an artistic vision Gertrude Stein at her desk in Paris in the 1930s.

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