Exploring Paris’s Left Bank and its oldest neighbourhood, Latin Quarter The Left Bank is famous for attracting writers and artists like Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh and Gertrude Stein but its ...

Now, for the first time, Toklas opened up about those first formative years in Paris. Friends had often expressed scepticism of Stein and Toklas’s closeness.

By contrast, her next book, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (a portrait of Stein supposedly seen through Toklas’s eyes), published in 1932, was simply and readably written and an immediate ...

FILE- This Sept. 7, 1971 file photo shows the grave of Jim Morrison, lead singer of the rock group “The Doors,” at the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris, France. (AP Photo/Joe Marquette,File) ...

ertrude Stein is, famously, one of those authors whose name is better known than her works. This was so during her lifetime, as the biographer Francesca Wade demonstrates in her readable and ...

Paris public prosecutors uncovered the cultural artifact during an unrelated search, a source told Agence France-Presse (AFP). Morrison, who died at 27 in 1971, was buried at Père Lachaise ...

From left Leo Stein, Allan Stein, Gertrude Stein, Theresa Ehrman, Sarah Stein, Michael Stein Credit: Alamy Her brother Leo moved to Paris in 1902, renting the famed rue de Fleurus apartment.

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 ...

Pennsylvania-born Gertrude Stein has now lived out one world war and most of a second in her adopted France, viewed many another war from afar in the course of her 71 years.

In 1903, Stein followed her older brother Leo to Paris and never looked back. In a way, her Baltimore circle helped her take up her famous role as linchpin of a Parisian circle of modern artists. In ...