Gertrude Stein was an American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. Her life was marked by two primary relationships, the first with her brother Leo Stein, from 1874-1914, and the second with Alice B. Toklas, from 1907 until Stein’s death in 1946. Stein shared her salon at 27 rue de Fleurus, Paris, first with Leo and then with Alice. Throughout her lifetime, Stein cultivated significant tertiary relationships with well-known members of the avant garde artistic and literary world of her time.
Books in order of publication:
Three Lives (1909)
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 1906–8, published 1925)
Stanzas in meditation (written 1929–1933, published 1956)
Four Saints in Three Acts (libretto, 1929: music by Virgil Thomson, 1934)
Useful Knowledge (1929)
An Acquaintance with Description (1929)
Lucy Church Amiably (1930). First Edition published by Imprimerie Union in Paris. The First American edition was published in 1969 by Something Press.
How to Write (1931)
They must. Be Wedded. To Their Wife (1931)
Operas and Plays (1932)
Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein with Two Shorter Stories (1933)
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933a)
Blood on the Dining Room Floor (1933b)
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)
Picasso, photo. Cecil Beaton (1938)
Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights (1938)
The World is Round, UK edition illus. Sir Francis Rose; US edition illus. Clement Hurd (1939)
Paris France (1940)
Ida A Novel (1941)
Three Sisters Who Are Not Sisters (1943)
Wars I Have Seen (1945a)
À la recherche d’un jeune peintre (Max-Pol Fouchet, ed., 1945b)
Reflections on the Atomic Bomb (1946a)
Brewsie and Willie (1946b)
The Mother of Us All (libretto, 1946c: music by Virgil Thompson 1947)
Gertrude Stein on Picasso (1946d)
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