On their return to Paris they reconnected with Picasso
and with Bernard Faÿ
, the French academic and intellectual whose right-wing connections had put him in charge of the Bibliothèque Nationale during the German occupation...
politics
Gertrude Stein
GS
's politics were equivocal and often conservative. She was not explicitly feminist, yet many critics have celebrated her early writings on female lives and relationships as pro-feminist. GS
writes in Everybody's Autobiography that she...
Publishing
Gertrude Stein
Friends and publishers had been calling on GS
to write her memoirs. She refused on grounds that it was not her type of writing—though, she said, she would not mind if Alice wanted to pursue...
Residence
Gertrude Stein
GS
spent most of World War II in the French villages of Bilignin and Culoz, despite warnings from the American consul in Lyons that she should leave because she was Jewish (as was Alice...