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 ...

What to do with Gertrude Stein? Decades after her death, she still bestrides the literary landscape like a mastodon, impossible to ignore, determined to take up space. A confrere of Pablo Picasso, ...

“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.

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

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 ...

One is not born but laboriously fashioned into a Great Writer, usually posthumously, always with the aid of a cast of supporting characters: agents, publishers, critics, literary executors, scholars, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Local playwright Melissa Lucero McCarl, fresh off the lauded run of her dramatic Frida Kahlo tribute, Painted Bread, says the creation of her next great project, a play about expatriate author ...

At its launch in December 1971 San Francisco's oldest LGBTQ Democratic Club operated with a "wink, wink" as being a political group for the city's LGBTQ community. It was merely known as the Alice B.