"creates a creative depiction of Gertrude Stein's private life during her time in Paris. She is depicted as a private, but exuberant woman who delights in her weekly private salons and the attention she receives from them. Gertrude Stein abstains from the routines of domestic life, preferring to focus on her writing or inspiration for it and leaving the management of 27 rue de Fleurus to her lover, Alice Toklas. Alice B. Toklas is another historical figure whom Truong fictionalizes in her novel. She lives with Gertrude Stein as her companion publicly and her lover privately; Miss Toklas manages the"
"Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson and Henri Matisse, would meet. In 1933, Stein published a quasi-memoir of her Paris years, ""The Autobiography of Alice"
"talks about her friendship with Sherwood Anderson and Ernest Hemingway, who helped with the publication of ""The Making of Americans"". There the couple makes friends with a coterie of Russian artists, but they constitute no artistic movement. Later, Gertrude gives a lecture at Oxford University. Alice then mentions more parties with artists. Later, they abridge ""The Making of Americans"" to four hundred pages for commercial reasons and devise the idea of authoring an autobiography. Gertrude Stein admitted to writing the work in six weeks with an end to making money. However, she did not like writing it for that particular"
"an argument with Matisse. Alice tells how Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, then moved to Vienna, to Passy, and finally to New York City and California. She attended Radcliffe College, where she was taught by William James. She decided to study for a Master's degree at Johns Hopkins University but dropped out because she was bored, then moved to London and was bored there too, returned to America, and eventually settled in Paris. Alice tells stories about Matisse, Apollinaire, and many other Cubist artists. She recounts holidays in Italy and Spain with Gertrude. Finally, they move to England"
"and I am fussy about my food."" Stein continued to praise Pétain after the war ended, this at a time when Pétain had been sentenced to death by a French court for treason. Author Djuna Barnes provided a caustic assessment of Stein's book, ""Wars I Have Seen"": Others have argued that some of the accounts of Stein's war time activities have amounted to a ""witch hunt"". Stein died on July 27, 1946 at the age of 72 after surgery for stomach cancer at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine. She was interred in Paris in Père Lachaise Cemetery. Later Alice B."
"English department at Skidmore College, where she was a professor and department chair. At Skidmore, she taught in two abroad programs in London and Paris, where she conducted research for a biography of Coco Chanel. Simon lives in Oakland, California. She is professor emerita of English at Skidmore College. A trip to Paris inspired Simon’s first book, ""Gertrude Stein: A Composite Portrait"" (Avon, 1974), which then led to her writing a biography of Stein's companion Alice B. Toklas. Simon is drawn to biographical subjects who defied expectations in forging their identity and life path, including Toklas, the philosopher and psychologist"
"selling petroleum products. ""Pidgin Cargo"", set among traders on the Yangtze River, appeared in 1929 and ""Oil for the Lamps of China"" in 1933. After making her home in California in the 1940s, her subject matter expanded to encompass contemporary Mexico in ""The Peacock Sheds His Tail"" (1945) and Californian agrarian life in ""The Cup and the Sword"" (1942) and ""The Cleft Rock"" (1948). In 1959 she published her memoir, ""Gusty's Child"". She published more than a dozen novels in all by the time of her death in 1967, with almost four million copies in print. Alice Tisdale Hobart Alice"
"her life, but with only a year in between the invasion of Poland and publishing of the book there is no real way to determine what parts of it she is referring to. Paris France (novel) Paris France is a memoir written by Gertrude Stein and published in 1940 on the day that Paris fell to Germany during World War II. The book blends Stein's childhood memories with a commentary on French people and culture. Paris France is a memoir written in a “stream of consciousness” style. It is interpreted as Gertrude Stein’s personal view of France as a country,"
"progress, and intelligibility."" Miranda's account extends the presentation of queerness from the content of the play to its structure as well. Student theatre company Cap & Bells mounted ""A List"" at Williams College in December 2016. No performances are listed in the appendices of Sarah Bay-Cheng's ""Mama Dada"". Radio Free Stein will workshop the play on August 12, 2017. A List A List is a play by American writer Gertrude Stein, written in 1923 and first published in ""Operas and Plays"" in 1932. It is structured in six parts, each labeled as a numbered or alphabetized ""List,"" and has seven"
"poems reveal the intimacies of Stein's relationship with Alice B. Toklas. Phallic and vaginal symbolism are scattered throughout the poems, and Kathryn Kent, among others, argue that Stein uses familiar objects to invite the reader to ""tend her buttons"" and indulge in Stein's ""sexual/textual manipulations"". Others have relied on a correlation between Stein's fascination with gazing on the subjects of her poems with Freud's fetishization of the object to reveal this underlying theme of sexuality. Stein insisted on the book as being a ""realistic"" portrayal of everyday objects. Her first poem in ""Food"", ""Roastbeef"", describes what some have accepted to"
"in 1932. Gurdjieff constituted a new teaching group in Paris. Known as The Rope, it was composed of only women, many of them writers, and several lesbians. Members included Kathryn Hulme, Jane Heap, Margaret Anderson and Enrico Caruso's widow, Dorothy. Gurdjieff became acquainted with Gertrude Stein through Rope members, but she was never a follower. In 1935, Gurdjieff stopped work on ""All and Everything."" He had completed the first two parts of the planned trilogy but only started on the ""Third Series."" (It was later published under the title ""Life Is Real Only Then, When 'I Am'."") In 1936, he"
"Center in New York. Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson and Henri Matisse, would meet. In 1933, Stein published a quasi-memoir of her Paris years,"
"Stein was the author of three books and a pioneer of the narrative form of oral history. Her final work was a cultural and political history of Los Angeles, ""West of Eden"", published by Random House in February 2016. In 1970, Stein authored, with George Plimpton as editor, a biography of Robert F. Kennedy, titled ""American Journey: The Times of Robert Kennedy"". With Plimpton, Stein co-wrote the best-selling book ""Edie: American Girl"", based on the life of socialite/actress and Andy Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick, in 1982. Norman Mailer wrote of ""Edie"": ""This is the book of the Sixties that we"
"most influential and intriguing of 20th century lesbian (and gay lives). She followed ""Gluck"" (1988), with ""Gertrude and Alice"" (1991) an account of the relationship between Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas which lasted from their first meeting to Stein’s death in 1946, ""Greta and Cecil"" (1994) examining the romantic relationship between Greta Garbo and Cecil Beaton, and ""Mrs Keppel and her daughter"" (1996) a dual biography of Alice Keppel, a long-time mistress of King Edward VII, and her daughter, Violet Trefusis. ""The Trials of Radclyffe Hall"" (1998), the biography of Marguerite Radclyffe Hall won the Lambda Literary Award for"
"under the title ""Three Histories"", and finished it in 1909. As the book developed, Stein included and later dropped an authorial narrator Jane Sands (perhaps named after George Sand, whose work she admired). Among the titles the book went through as it progressed were ""The Making of an Author being a History of one woman and many others"". Leo bought in 1904 a portrait by French painter Paul Cézanne, ""Portrait of Madame Cézanne"" (). Painted in an unnatural, high-contrast style that eschews conventional approaches to depicting femininity, the work portrays the artist's wife holding a fan while reclining in a"
"she accompanied Audre Lorde as a translator on a reading tour of Germany and Switzerland. She translated Gertrude Stein's only mystery novel, ""Blood on the Dining-Room Floor"", into German keine keiner and in 1989 created a photo-biography with parallel visual and textual readings of Stein's life, ""Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures"". The English edition (Algonquin Books, 1994) earned a Lambda Award. In 2009, the photo-biography was republished and served as an inspiration for the exhibition ""Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories, Summer 2011"", at the Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco and The National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. Renate"
"A List A List is a play by American writer Gertrude Stein, written in 1923 and first published in ""Operas and Plays"" in 1932. It is structured in six parts, each labeled as a numbered or alphabetized ""List,"" and has seven characters: Martha, Maryas, Marius, Mabel, Mary, Martin, and May. There are no explicit stage directions, but names in the side text are frequently joined with an ampersand or the word ""and."" Stein said that the play was based on Avery Hopwood's play ""Our Little Wife"" (1916). The play does not contain an easily discernible plot. However, pairings of characters"
"two passengers on board the ""Carpathia"", the ship that rescued passengers from the Titanic. ""The Museum of Happiness"" is a story about a young widow and a half-Alsatian, half-German carnival worker as they fall in love in a 1929 Paris. A German translation was published by Wilhelm Heyne Verlag in 1997. It was reissued by the University of Wisconsin Press. ""The Alice Stories"" is about a girl called Alice and her family. She falls in love with Anders Dahl, a Norwegian farmer. Then, their child Maude was born. The novel goes through her life and her biggest challenges. ""My Life"
"was intrigued to discover that Toklas and Stein had had two ""Indo-Chinese"" men who cooked for them at two of their French residences. Published in 2003, ""The Book of Salt"" won numerous literary awards, including the New York Public Library Young Lions Award and the Bard Fiction Prize. It takes place in post-World War I Paris, and tells the story of Binh, a Vietnamese cook, who, after spending years working for Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, must decide whether to travel with his employers to the United States, return to Vietnam, or remain in France. The novel explores themes"
"in 1932 through his academic advisor Clarence Andrews, and so began a long correspondence with Stein which resulted in a warm friendship. He paid visits to her rented country home in France during the summers of 1937 and 1939. During the 1937 trip, he also met with many other literary figures, including Thornton Wilder, Lord Alfred Douglas (the lover of Oscar Wilde), Thomas Mann, and André Gide. He detailed these encounters, some of them sexual, in his brief memoir, ""Chapters from an Autobiography"". He also described his friendship with Stein and Alice B. Toklas in his ""Dear Sammy: Letters from"
"Physiology or Medicine. Suffering from depression, Stein apparently committed suicide by jumping from her Manhattan apartment on April 30, 2017. She was 83. Jean Stein Jean Babette Stein (February 9, 1934 – April 30, 2017) was an American author and editor. Stein was born to a Jewish family in Chicago. Her father was Jules C. Stein (1896–1981), founder of the Music Corporation of America (MCA) and the Jules Stein Eye Institute at University of California, Los Angeles. Her mother, Doris J. Stein (1902–1984), established the Doris Jones Stein Foundation. Jean Stein's sister, Susan Shiva, died of breast cancer (1983), as"
"and lyrics by Marc Blitzstein and book by Joseph Stein is based on the 1924 play ""Juno and the Paycock"" by Seán O'Casey. It originally opened on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theater on March 9, 1959, starring Shirley Booth and Melvyn Douglas and played a total of sixteen performances. Songs include ""I Wish It So"", ""We’re Alive"", and ""One Kind Word"". Stein lived in Manhattan with his wife Elisa Loti, an Obie Award and Theatre World Award-winning actress who was featured on the cover of LIFE Magazine and who is now a psychotherapist practicing as Elisa Stein. He was"
"repay drug debts. Orange, a member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes, was himself raised in the area of Oakland. The title of the novel (despite taking note of the song ""There There"", by English rock band Radiohead in the second chapter) is a reference to Gertrude Stein's own description, in her 1937 ""Everybody's Autobiography"", of an attempt to return to her childhood home in Oakland but finding that the rural Oakland she remembered was gone: ""There is no there there"". For native people, Orange writes, cities and towns represent ""buried ancestral land, glass and concrete and wire and steel,"
"research and writing for the rest of her life. She worked closely with Leon Katz, Bill Rice and Edward Burns. With Burns, she edited ""The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder"" (1996). In 1993 she published ""A Stein Reader"", notable both for the selections and the illuminating headnotes. Because of Dydo's extensive research on the Stein papers at the Beinecke Library (Yale University), she was able to provide detailed textual scholarship about individual Stein works, such as had not been previously available. The years of study culminated in Dydo's major work, ""Gertrude Stein: The Language that Rises 1923–1934"", published"
"(The Slave)"", 1900–1903, bronze; ""Madeleine, I"", 1901 bronze; ""Flowers"", 1905 oil on cardboard; ""Assiette de fruits (Fruit Dish)"", 1902-1903 oil on canvas 1907; ""La fille aux yeux verts (The Girl with Green Eyes)"", 1908 oil on canvas; ""Grosse tête; Henriette, II (Large Head; Henriette, II)"", 1927 bronze; Pablo Picasso, ""Scène de rue (Street Scene)"", 1900 oil on canvas. Harriet Lane Levy Harriet Lane Levy (1867–1950) is a California writer best known for her memoir, ""920 O’Farrell Street"". Levy was also an avid art collector, a girlhood friend of Alice B. Toklas, and an acquaintance of Gertrude Stein. She was born"
"Through the rest of 1937 she tried, unsuccessfully, to interest Thornton Wilder, a close friend at the time, in a collaboration on the novel. Stein worked on the first half of the novel until early 1940, rewriting it twice, and wrote the second half in April–May 1940. The manuscripts are in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. While working on ""Ida"" Stein also wrote ""Picasso"" (1937), ""Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights"" (1938), ""The World Is Round"" (1938), and ""Paris France"" (1939). Ida: A Novel Ida A Novel is a novel by Gertrude Stein, first published in 1941. Following Ida"
"Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. African-American reactions to Stein's portrayal of Melanctha varied: novelist Richard Wright wrote that he could ""hear the speech of grandmother, who spoke a deep, pure Negro dialect"", while poet Claude McKay ""found nothing striking and informative about Negro life. Melanctha, the mulatress, might have been a Jewess."" ""Three Lives"" continues to be the most widely taught of Stein's books, considered more accessible than her later works, such as the ""Cubist"" ""Tender Buttons"" which followed in 1914. Three Lives (book) Three Lives (1909) was American writer Gertrude Stein's first published book. The book is separated"
"famous people interest us more than what they might actually do. Among the models Stein used was the Duchess of Windsor. The narrator of ""Ida"" depicts a woman with a divided self: a part of her seems under the control of others, men especially, but there is another part that resists. We can never really be sure we know who Ida is. Stein's friend W. G. Rogers noted that ""there is a definite one-sex-against-the-other conflict in it, that hasn't been in your books ever before."" Stein began writing ""Ida"" in May 1937, shortly after finishing her second autobiography, ""Everybody's Autobiography""."
"Three Lives (book) Three Lives (1909) was American writer Gertrude Stein's first published book. The book is separated into three stories, ""The Good Anna"", ""Melanctha"", and ""The Gentle Lena"". The three stories are independent of each other, but all are set in Bridgepoint, a fictional town based on Baltimore. Each of the three tales in ""Three Lives"" tells of a working-class woman living in Baltimore. ""The Good Anna"", the first of Gertrude Stein’s ""Three Lives"", is a novella set in ""Bridgepoint"" about Anna Federner, a servant of ""solid lower middle-class south german stock"". Part I describes Anna’s happy life as"
"Fanny Butcher, Gertrude Stein reported that she was reading ""The White Cockatoo"" and was impressed by Eberhart's ""xtraordinary"" writing skill. The White Cockatoo (novel) The White Cockatoo is a murder mystery novel written by Mignon G. Eberhart. It was published by Doubleday, Doran & Co. in 1933. It was later released in December, 1993, by Thorndike Press. The film served as the basis of the 1935 film of the same name directed by Alan Crosland. The ""New York Times"" described ""The White Cockatoo"" as overly convoluted. The reviewer lamented the fact that Sarah Keate, the primary character of Eberhart's previous"
"If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso Gertrude Stein wrote ""If I Told Him : A Completed Portrait of Picasso” in 1923. It was first published in ""Vanity Fair"" in 1924 and she subsequently published it in her collection ""Portraits and Prayers"". This poem was part of a multi-decade intertextual dialogue between Stein and Pablo Picasso. Stein was one of the first to exhibit Picasso’s paintings at her weekly salons at 27 rue de Fleurus. In 1906, Picasso completed a portrait of Stein, and the following year, she wrote her first literary portrait of Picasso, titled “Picasso.” Over"
"in Paris, Stein began submitting her 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 Stein to Mabel Dodge Luhan and they began a short-lived but fruitful friendship during which the wealthy Mabel Dodge promoted Gertrude's legend in the United States. Mabel was enthusiastic about Stein's sprawling publication ""The Makings of Americans"" and, at a time when Stein had much difficulty selling her writing to publishers, privately published 300 copies of ""Portrait of Mabel Dodge at Villa Curonia"". Dodge was also involved in"
"elders. During her married life, Lena bears Herman three children, all the while growing increasingly passive and distant. Neither Lena nor the baby survives her fourth pregnancy, leaving Herman ""very well content now...with his three good, gentle children"". Stein's first book, QED, went unpublished until after her death; she began another, ""The Making of Americans"" in 1903; she finished it in 1911, but it took until 1925 to see print. Stein's brother Leo, with whom she was living in Paris, encouraged her to attempt a translation of Flaubert's ""Three Tales"" to improve her French. She began the project in 1905"