The 2026 award committee called the book “a groundbreaking addition to the literary study of this iconic and controversial figure” Francesca Wade's biography Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife won the 2026 ...

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 ...

Drawing on never-before-seen interviews, a richly researched, sweeping examination of one of the most influential and mythologized literary figures of the 20th century and her partner’s emergence from ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The unnamed narrator of Deborah Levy’s latest novel, My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein, is trying—and failing—to write an essay about the ...

Francesca Wade is the author of “Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife,” her acclaimed biography of the iconic 20th-century author, art collector, and personality (which was also one of our picks for the best ...

Janet Malcolm once remarked that most well-read people have not read Gertrude Stein’s “The Making of Americans.” Famously inscrutable, Stein’s opus exceeds nine hundred pages and sets out to tell the ...

Gertrude Stein had no doubt that she was a genius. “I have been the creative literary mind of the century,” she once boasted. “Think of the Bible and Homer think of Shakespeare and think of me.” Some ...

AMERICANS living in Europe before the war never really believed that there was going to be war. Gertrude Stein always tells about the little janitor’s boy who, playing in the court, would regularly ...