Sadly, the pair stopped short of what I view as the greatest challenge: producing novels that reflect what Americans like and dislike in fiction. Now, at last, with People’s Choice Literature, by the ...

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 ...

She and Toklas were on the road (and in the air, as they took their first aeroplane) for seven months and took in 37 states. “Gertrude Stein has arrived,” announced the ticker tape in New York to ...

By the time Stein landed in the United States—her first trip back after leaving for Paris in 1903—she was already a household name. Her route to recognition had been an unlikely one. Stein’s ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Martin Chilton shares his May reading highlightsSpanning 35 years, Florence Knapp’s superb debut novel shows what happens to the same boy whether he is Bear – a name chosen by his older sister ...

Gertrude Stein is really the only writer that does prose where it actually sounds like somebody talking, and she does that by repetition. Because when we speak, people repeat isolated words ...

American writer Gertrude Stein left a profound mark on 20th-century modernism through her literary work and her enthusiastic patronage of avant-garde art. Read on for more facts about her ...

The book is persuasive on Gertrude Stein who, via a hypnotic repeat overload within the paragraph, changed the very nature of a novel’s sentence, certainly a North American one.