Gertrude Stein
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Standard Name: Stein, Gertrude
Birth Name: Gertrude Stein
Nickname: Altrude
Nickname: Sybil of Montparnasse
Paris (though in French villages during the Second World War), she marked her writing as deeply American. In the years between the wars she hosted her legendary salon at 27 rue de Fleurus, where, after 1910, she lived with her life partner,
. With her brother
, Stein was an early collector and promoter of modern, especially cubist, painting.
concerned herself with problems of identity, knowledge, consciousness, and language. In a period of modernist experiment, she became famous as a radically innovative avant-gardist. Her experimental imagination played around with the generic requirements of many forms—short stories, detective stories, novellas, literary portraits, poems, autobiographies, critical essays, operas, plays, and war reminiscences. This often non-referential work is opaque and resistant to interpretation. An expatriate for virtually all of her writing career and of the first half of the twentieth century, living largely in Timeline
Texts
Stein, Gertrude, and Carl Van Vechten. A Novel of Thank You. Yale University Press, 1958.
Stein, Gertrude. “A Stein Song”. Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein, edited by Carl Van Vechten, Random House, 1946, p. ix - xv.
Stein, Gertrude. Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded. Plain Edition, 1931.
Stein, Gertrude. Brewsie and Willie. Random House, 1946.
Stein, Gertrude. Composition as Explanation. Hogarth Press, 1926.
Stein, Gertrude. Everybody’s Autobiography. Random House, 1937.
Stein, Gertrude, and Leon Katz. Fernhurst, Q.E.D., and Other Early Writings. Liveright, 1971.
Barney, Natalie Clifford, and Gertrude Stein. “Foreword”. As Fine as Melanctha, Yale University Press, 1954, p. vii - xix.
Stein, Gertrude et al. Four Saints in Three Acts. Random House, 1934.
Stein, Gertrude, and Sherwood Anderson. Geography and Plays. Four Seas Press, 1922.
Stein, Gertrude. Geography and Plays. The University of Wisconsin Press, 1993.
Stein, Gertrude. “How Many Acts Are There In It?”. Last Operas and Plays, edited by Carl Van Vechten, Rinehart, 1949, p. vii - xix.
Stein, Gertrude. Ida. Random House, 1941.
Stein, Gertrude. Last Operas and Plays. Editor Van Vechten, Carl, Rinehart, 1949.
Stein, Gertrude, and Elizabeth Sprigge. Look at Me Now and Here I Am: Writings and Lectures: 1909-1945. Editor Meyerowitz, Patricia, Penguin, 1971.
Stein, Gertrude. Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein. Plain Edition, 1933.
Stein, Gertrude. Matisse, Picasso, and Gertrude Stein. Something Else Press, 1972.
Stein, Gertrude, and Leon Solomons. “Normal Motor Automatism”. Harvard Psychological Review, Harvard University Press.
Stein, Gertrude. Paris France. Scribner, 1940.
Stein, Gertrude. Picasso. Floury, 1938.
Stein, Gertrude. Portraits and Prayers. Random House, 1934.
Stein, Gertrude. Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein. Editor Van Vechten, Carl, Random House, 1946.
Stein, Gertrude, and Donald Sutherland. Stanzas in Meditation. Yale University Press, 1956.
Stein, Gertrude. Tender Buttons. Claire Marie, 1914.
Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Harcourt, Brace, 1933.