Books & the Arts / Why do we misunderstand one of modernism’s great writers? David Schurman Wallace No one understands Gertrude Stein. For this, we should all give thanks. It is almost a cliché to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Stein was a genius, writes Luke Kennard, but also a real and difficult person - Hulton Archive/Getty Images Gertrude Stein, as ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gertrude Stein had no doubt that she was a genius. “I have been the creative literary mind of the century,” she once boasted.

Who was Gertrude Stein? Should she be remembered as a pioneering writer? An early and insightful collector of modern art? A den mother to a 1920s cohort of creatives—Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Joyce—for ...

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 ...

PARIS FRANCE — Gertrude Stem —Scribner ($2.50). Gertrude Stein writes as always in a way that anyone might like or anyone might not like, as always she mixes things a little. Really though it is ...

The Making of Americans explores familial identity without any dialogue or concrete plot. It’s often considered Stein’s most experimental work. “I have always loved the rhythm in Stein’s writing,” ...

When Leo Stein first saw Woman with a Hat, he thought it “the nastiest smear of paint” he had ever encountered. But for five weeks, he and Gertrude went to the Grand Palais repeatedly to look at it, ...

The modernist novelist, art collector and saloniste held a high opinion of herself. Francesca Wade probes Stein’s life and legacy, taking her at her word. By Christopher Benfey Fifty years after the ...

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 ...