Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946
Biographical note
American-Jewish writer, poet and art collector who spent most of her life in France.
While living in Paris, Gertrude began writing for publication. Her earliest writings were mainly retellings of her college experiences. Her first critically acclaimed publication was Three Lives. In 1911 Mildred Aldrich introduced Gertrude to Mabel Dodge Luhan and they began a short-lived but fruitful friendship during which a wealthy Mabel Dodge promoted Gertrude's legend in the United States.
Works
- Three Lives : stories of the Good Anna, Melanctha and the Gentle Lena [1909]
- Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein ; with A Long Gay Book and Many Many Women [1909-12]
- White Wines, (1913)
- Tender Buttons : Objects—Food—Rooms [1914]
- An Exercise in Analysis (1917)
- A Circular Play (1920)
- Geography and Plays [1922]
- The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family's Progress (written 1906-1908, published 1925)
- Four Saints in Three Acts (libretto, 1929: music by Virgil Thomson, 1934)
- Useful Knowledge (1929)
- How to Write (1931)
- They must. Be Wedded. To Their Wife (1931)
- Operas and Plays (1932)
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas [1933]
- Lectures in America (1935)
- The Geographical History of America or the Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind (1936)
- Everybody's Autobiography (1937)
- Picasso (1938)
- Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938)
- Paris France (1940)
- Ida: A Novel (1941)
- Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters (1943)
- Wars I Have Seen (1945)
- Reflections on the Atom Bomb (1946) online version
- Brewsie and Willie (1946)
- The Mother of Us All (libretto, 1946: music by Virgil Thompson 1947)
- Last Operas and Plays (1949)
- The Things as They Are (written as Q.E.D. in 1903, published 1950)
- Patriarchal Poetry (1953)
- Alphabets and Birthdays (1957)
