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 ...

Gertrude Stein’s quest for fame The modernist phenomenon believed bad attention was better than none at all.

“Gertrude Stein Has Arrived”, read the tickertape snaking around the New York Times building, flashing breaking news to all who passed through Times Square. Over seven months, starting in October 1934 ...

But Stein’s meek, self-sacrificing mother, who died when Gertrude was 14, could not contain the domineering temperament of her husband, whose death three years later cast the family adrift.

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

Gertrude Stein, as Francesca Wade puts it in this masterpiece of biography, was a character of “bewildering contradictions”. Depending on who you spoke to, she was either a genius or a charlatan. A ...

In 1926, Gertrude Stein took to the stage at Oxford University to deliver a lecture – later published as ‘Composition as Explanation’ – that she hoped would change the course of her floundering ...

American novel as great titles renewed the art of storytelling and had the power to influence upcoming writers for decades to come ...

John Irwin Rector was the Gertrude Stein of Rhode Island. He may not have written impossible books, but for two decades he did host the state’s ...

Gertrude Stein in Circles, exhibition closing event: Friends, Lovers, Rivals, and Comrades Join the Sheridan Libraries & University Museums to mark the closing of Gertrude Stein in Circles: Spheres of ...