
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an avant-garde American writer most well known for her influence on writers and artists in Paris during the 1920s. Her most famous work is The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.1
Works
- Three Lives (1909)
- Portrait of Mabel Dodge at the Villa Curonia (1912)
- 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 (1925)
- Composition as Explanation (1926)
- Useful Knowledge (1928)
- An Acquaintance with Description (1929)
- Lucy Church Amiably (1930)
- How to Write (1931)
- Before the Flowers of Friendship Faded Friendship Faded (1931)
- They must. Be Wedded. To Their Wife (1931)
- Operas and Plays (1932)
- Matisse, Picasso, and Gertrude Stein (1933)
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933)
- Blood on the Dining Room Floor (1933)
- Portraits and Prayers (1934)
- Lectures in America (1935)
- The Geographical History of America or, The Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind (1936)
- Everybody’s Autobiography (1937)
- Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938)
- The World…Is Round (1939)
- Paris, France (1940)
- What Are Masterpieces (1940)
- Ida, A Novel (1941)
- Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters (1943)
- Wars I Have Seen (1945)
- Reflections on the Atom Bomb (1946)
- In Savoy; or, Yes Is for a Very Young Man: A Play of the Resistance in France (1946)
- Brewsie and Willie (1946)
- Gertrude Stein on Picasso (1946)
- The Gertrude Stein First Reader & Three Plays (1947)
- Four in America (1947)
- Mrs. Reynolds (1947)
- Last Operas and Plays (1949)
- The Things as They Are (1950)
- Patriarchal Poetry (1953)
- Alphabets and Birthdays (1957)
- Fernhurst, Q.E.D. and Other Early Writings (1971)
- Really Reading Gertrude Stein: A Selected Anthology (1989)
- Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein (1990)
- Writings 1903–1932 (1998)
- Writings 1932–1946 (1998)
Librettos
- Four Saints in Three Acts (1934)
- Capital, Capitals; For Four Men and a Piano (1947)
- The Mother of Us All (1947)
- Preciosilla; For Voice and Piano (1948)
Letters
- Dear Sammy: Letters from Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas (1977)
- The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913–1946 (1986)
- Mirrors of the Friendship: The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder (1996)
- A History of Having a Great Many Times Not Continued to Be Friends: The Correspondence between Mabel Dodge and Gertrude Stein, 1911-1934 (1996)
See also
External Links
- Gertrude Stein and Her Circle papers at the University of Maryland
- Portrait of Gertrude Stein by Pablo Picasso
- Audio recordings of Gertrude Stein on PennSound
- Academy of American Poets profile
- Goodreads profile
- IMDb profile
- Works on Internet Archive
- Works on LibriVox
- Works on Project Gutenberg
- Gertrude Stein on Find A Grave
References
1. “Gertrude Stein.” Encyclopedia Britannica. Accessed July 31, 2020.