Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American writer and thinker who spent most of her life in France. She was well known due to her writing, art collection and the many people (some of whom were, or became, famous) who visited her Paris salon.

Her adult life featured two main personal relationships. The first was her working relationship with her brother Leo Stein, from 1874 to 1914, and the second was her romantic relationship 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 also had significant relationships with avant garde artists and literary people. She was friends with young artists Matisse and Picasso during the early 1900s, authors Thornton Wilder and Ernest Hemingway during the 1920s. She is credited with coining the term Lost Generation as description of her many expatriate acquaintances in France and Italy during the 1920s and 1930s.

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"A diary means yes indeed.""A house in the country is not the same as a country house.""A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.""A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.""A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.""A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.""Action and reaction are equal and opposite.""America is my country and Paris is my hometown.""Americans are very friendly and very suspicious, that is what Americans are and that is what always upsets the foreigner, who deals with them, they are so friendly how can they be so suspicious they are so suspicious how can they be so friendly but they just are.""An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.""Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.""Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.""But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'""Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.""Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.""Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.""Disillusionment in living is finding that no one can really ever be agreeing with you completely in anything.""Do not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.""Do you know because I tell you so, or do you know, do you know.""Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.""Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.""Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.""Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.""Everyone gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.""Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.""Hemingway's remarks are not literature.""History takes time. History makes memory.""Human beings are interested in two things. They are interested in the reality and interested in telling about it.""I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.""I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.""I don't envisage collectivism. There is no such animal, it is always individualism, sometimes the rest vote and sometimes they do not, and if they do they do and if they do not they do not.""I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.""I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.""I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.""I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.""I rarely believe anything, because at the time of believing I am not really there to believe.""I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.""I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.""If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.""If you can do it then why do it?""In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.""In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.""In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.""Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.""It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.""It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.""It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.""It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.""It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.""It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.""It is natural not to care about a sister certainly not when she is four years older and grinds her teeth at night.""It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.""It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.""It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.""It is the soothing thing about history that it does repeat itself.""It is very easy to love alone.""It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.""Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.""Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.""Let me listen to me and not to them.""Literature - creative literature - unconcerned with sex, is inconceivable.""Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.""Men cannot count, they do not know that two and two make four if women do not tell them so.""Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.""Name any name and then remember everybody you ever knew who bore that name. Are they all alike. I think so.""Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.""Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.""Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.""One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.""Picasso once remarked I do not care who it is that has or does influence me as long as it is not myself.""Poetry consists in a rhyming dictionary and things seen.""Remarks are not literature.""Romance is everything.""Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.""Sculpture is made with two instruments and some supports and pretty air.""Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.""Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.""That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.""The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.""The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.""The earth is the earth as a peasant sees it, the world is the world as a duchess sees it, and anyway a duchess would be nothing if the earth was not there as the peasant sees it.""The minute you or anybody else knows what you are you are not it, you are what you or anybody else knows you are and as everything in living is made up of finding out what you are it is extraordinarily difficult really not to know what you are and yet to be that thing.""The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.""The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.""The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.""There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.""There is a difference between twenty-nine and thirty. When you are twenty-nine it can be the beginning of everything. When you are thirty it can be the end of everything.""There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.""There is no such thing as being good to your wife.""There is no there there.""There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.""This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.""To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.""Very likely education does not make very much difference.""War is never fatal but always lost. Always lost.""We are always the same age inside.""What is marriage, is marriage protection or religion, is marriage renunciation or abundance, is marriage a stepping-stone or an end. What is marriage.""What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.""What is the answer? In that case, what is the question?""When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.""You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived."

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Gertrude Stein, the youngest of a family of five children, was born in 1874 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (merged with Pittsburgh in 1907)[1], to well-educated German-Jewish immigrant parents. Her father, Daniel Stein, was an executive with a railroad, whose prudent investments in streetcar lines and real estate had made the family wealthy. When Gertrude was three years old, the Steins relocated for business reasons first to Vienna and then to Paris. Her family returned to America in 1878, settling in Oakland, California, where she attended First Hebrew Congregation of Oakland's Sabbath school.

In 1888, Amelia Stein (Gertrude's mother) died, and in 1891 Daniel Stein (Gertrude's father) died. Afterward, Michael Stein (her eldest brother) managed the family business holdings, and made wise business decisions and arranged the affairs of his siblings. During most of her life, Gertrude lived on a trust income from funds her brother Michael very capably stewarded and invested.

Michael Stein arranged for Gertrude, and another sister Bertha, to live with their mother's family in Baltimore after the deaths of their parents. (Mellow, 1974, pp. 25—28). In 1892 she lived with her uncle David Bachrach. It was in Baltimore that Gertrude met Claribel Cone and Etta Cone who held Saturday evening salons which Gertrude would later emulate in Paris, who shared an appreciation for art and conversation about it, and who modeled a domestic division of labor that Gertrude was later to replicate in her relationship with Alice B. Toklas. (Ibid. pp. 41—42).

Stein attended Radcliffe College from 1893 to 1897, and was a student of psychologist William James. With James's supervision, Stein and another student named Leon Mendez Solomons performed experiments on Normal Motor Automatism, a phenomenon hypothesized to occur in people when their attention is divided between two simultaneous intelligent activities, like writing and speaking. These experiments yielded examples of writing that appeared to represent "stream of consciousness," a psychological theory often attributed to James, which became the term used to describe the style of modernist authors like Virginia Woolf and James Joyce. In 1934, behavioral psychologist, B.F. Skinner in fact interpreted Stein's notoriously difficult poem, Tender Buttons, as an example of the "normal motor automatism" Stein had written about for the experiment at Radcliffe. According to a letter Stein wrote during the 1930s, however, she had never really accepted the theory of automatic writing, explaining: "there can be automatic movements, but not automatic writing. Writing for the normal person is too complicated an activity to be indulged in automatically." At Radcliffe, she began a lifelong friendship with Mabel Foote Weeks, whose correspondence traces much of the progression of Gertrude's life. In 1897, Gertrude spent the summer in Woods Hole, Massachusetts studying embryology at the Marine Biological Laboratory, succeeded by two years at Johns Hopkins Medical School. In 1901, she left Johns Hopkins without obtaining a degree. Hopkins Medical News: The Unknown Gertrude

Paris, 1903—1914 more less

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Alice B. Toklas, 1907—1946 more less

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Juan Gris

During the early summer of 1914, Gertrude bought three paintings by Juan Gris: Roses, Glass and Bottle, and Book and Glasses. Soon after she purchased them from Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler's gallery (Mellow, 1974, at 209), the Great War began, Kahnweiler's stock was confiscated and he was not allowed to return to Paris. Gris, who before the war had entered a binding contract with Kahnweiler for his output, was left without income. Gertrude attempted to enter an ancillary arrangement in which she would forward Gris living expenses in exchange for future pictures.

Great Britain

Stein and Toklas had plans to visit England to sign a contract for the publication of Three Lives, to spend a few weeks, and journey then to Spain. They left Paris on July 6, 1914 and returned on October 17. [Ibid., 210-15]. When Britain declared war on Germany, Stein and Toklas were visiting Alfred North Whitehead in England. After a supposed three-week trip to England that endured for three months due to the War, they returned to France, where they spent the first winter of the war.

Majorca, Spain

With money acquired from the sale of Stein's last Matisse Woman with a Hat to her brother Michael, she and Toklas vacationed in Spain from May 1915, through the spring of 1916. During their interlude in Majorca, Spain, Gertrude continued her correspondence with Mildred Aldrich who kept her apprised of the War's progression, and eventually inspired Gertrude and Alice to return to France to join the war effort.

Auntie

Toklas and Stein returned to Paris in June 1916 and acquired a Ford with the help of associates in the United States; Gertrude learned to drive it with the help of her friend William Edwards Cook. (Ibid., at 226-27). Gertrude and Alice then volunteered to drive supplies to French hospitals, in the Ford they named Auntie, "after Gertrude's aunt Pauline, 'who always behaved admirably in emergencies and behaved fairly well most times if she was flattered.'" (Ibid., at 228)

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With the outbreak of World War II, Stein and Toklas relocated to a country home that they had rented for many years previously in Bilignin, Ain, in the Rhône-Alpes region. Gertrude and Alice, who were both Jewish, escaped persecution probably because of their friendship to Bernard Faÿ who was a collaborator with the Vichy regime and had connections to the Gestapo. When Faÿ was sentenced to hard labor for life after the war, Gertrude and Alice campaigned for his release. Several years later, Toklas would contribute money to Faÿ's escape from prison.

After the war, Stein was visited by many young American soldiers.

Her preface written for a 1945 Paris exhibition for Spanish painter Francisco Riba-Rovira "is one of Gertrude Stein's last texts" on her vision of the painting art, approximately one year before her death. In it she expressed her opinions of Picasso, Cézanne, Matisse and Juan Gris as well as Riba-Rovira, a familiar artist of her salon at rue de Fleurus.

The following is a translation from Stein's preface to the exhibition by Riba-Rovira at Roquepine Gallery in May 1945 :

It is inevitable that when we really need someone we find him. The person you need attracts you like a magnet. I returned to Paris, after these long years spent in the countryside and I needed a young painter, a young painter who would awaken me. Paris was magnificent, but where was the young painter?I looked everywhere:at my contemporaries and their followers. I walked a lot, I looked everywhere, in all the galleries , but the young painter was not there. Yes, I walk a lot, a lot at the edge of the Seine where we fish, where we paint, where we walk dogs ( I am of those who walk their dogs).Not a single young painter!

One day, on the corner of a street, in one of these small streets in my district, I saw a man painting. I looked at him; at him and at his painting, as I always look at everybody who creates something I have an indefatigable curiosity to look and I was moved. Yes, a young painter!

We began to speak, because we speak easily, as easily as in country roads, in the small streets of the district.

His story was the sad story of the young people of our time .A young Spaniard who studied in fine arts in Barcelona: civil war; exile; a concentration camp;escape .Gestapo, another prison, another escape... Eight lost years! If they were lost, who knows? And now a little misery, but all the same the painting. Why did I find that it was him the young painter, why? I visited his drawings, his painting :we speak.
I explained that for me, all modern painting is based on what Cézanne nearly made, instead of basing itself on what he almost managed to make. When he could not make a thing, he hijacked it and left it .He  insisted on  showing his incapacity:he spread his lack of success :showing what he could not do, became an obsession for him .People influenced by him were also obsessed by the things which they could not reach and they began the system of camouflage.It was natural to do so, even inevitable:that soon became an art, in peace and in war, and Matisse concealed and insisted at the same time on that Cézanne could not realize, and Picasso concealed, played and tormented all these things.
The only one who wanted to insist on this problem, was Juan Gris. He persisted by deepening the things which Cézanne wanted to do, but it was too hard a task for him: it killed him.

And now here we are, I find a young painter who does not follow the tendency to play with what Cézanne could not do, but who attacks any right the things which he tried to make, to create the objects which have to exist ,for , and in themselves, and not in relation.

This young painter has his weakness and his strength. His force will push him in this road. I am fascinated and that is why he is the young painter whose I needed. It is François(Francisco)Riba-Rovira.

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Stein is the author of one of the earliest coming out stories, Q.E.D. (published in 1950 as Things as They Are), written in 1903 and suppressed by the author. The story, written during travels after ending college, is based on a three-person romantic affair she joined while studying at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. The affair was complicated, as Stein was less experienced with the social dynamics of romantic friendship as well as her own sexuality and any moral dilemmas regarding it. Stein maintained at the time that she detested "passion in its many disguised forms". The relationships of Stein's acquaintances Mabel Haynes and Grace Lounsbury ended as Haynes started one with Mary Bookstaver (also known as May Bookstaver). Stein became enamored of Bookstaver but was unsuccessful in advancing their relationship. Bookstaver, Haynes, and Lounsbury all later married men. (Blackmer 1995, p. 681-686)

Her growing awareness of her sexuality began to interfere with the bourgeois values implicit in her medical studies and would have put her at odds with contemporary feminist theory and opinion, and Q.E.D. may have assisted her with understanding her scholarly and romantic failure. However, Stein began to accept and define her pseudo-masculinity through the ideas of Otto Weininger's Sex and Character (1906). Weininger, though Jewish by birth, considered Jewish men effeminate and women as incapable of selfhood and genius, except for female homosexuals who may approximate masculinity. (ibid)

More positive affirmations of Stein's sexuality began with her relationship with Toklas. Ernest Hemingway describes how Alice was Gertrude's "wife" in that Stein rarely addressed his (Hemingway's) wife, and he treated Alice the same, leaving the two "wives" to chat.(Grahn 1989) Alice was 4'11" tall, and Gertrude was 5'1" .

The more affirming essay "Miss Furr and Miss Skeene" is one of the first homosexual revelation stories to be published. The work, like Q.E.D., is informed by Stein's growing involvement with a homosexual community (Grahn 1989), though it is based on lesbian partners Maud Hunt Squire and Ethel Mars (Blackmer 1995). The work contains the word "gay" over one hundred times, perhaps the first published use of the word "gay" in reference to same-sex relationships and those who have them, (Blackmer 1995) and, as such, uninformed readers missed the lesbian content. A similar essay of homosexual men begins more obviously with the line "Sometimes men are kissing" but is less well known. (ibid)

In Tender Buttons Stein comments on lesbian sexuality and the work abounds with "highly condensed layers of public and private meanings" created by wordplay including puns on the words "box", "cow", and in titles such as "tender buttons". (ibid)

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About Stein's Writings more less

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In March 2008, a new musical entitled "27, rue de Fleurus" by Ted Sod and Lisa Koch, which is told from the perspective of Alice B. Toklas and featuring Gertrude Stein, will premiere at Urban Stages in NYC
The Lynne Truss book, Eats, Shoots and Leaves, makes several references to Stein's writings, specifically Stein's vendetta against most punctuation.
In the musical The Drowsy Chaperone, the song "Bride's Lament" references her with the line "Gertrude Stein, she gave me a rose."
In 2005, playwright/actor Jade Esteban Estrada portrayed Stein in the solo musical ICONS: The Lesbian and Gay History of the World, Vol. 1 at Princeton University.
In the 2006 motion picture The Devil Wears Prada, the character Christian Thompson, played by Simon Baker, attributes the statement "America is my country, but Paris is my hometown" to Gertrude Stein.
In the 1995 motion picture Sabrina, the character Sabrina, played by Julia Ormond says, upon readying to depart to Paris, "Gertrude Stein once said 'America is my country, but Paris is my hometown.'"
Chuck Coleman, jazz-popular music singer/songwriter, sings about Stein in the track "Me And Gertrude Stein" from his album, "People, Places, and Flings."
Scottish rock music band Idlewild released a single called Roseability in 2000 from the album 100 Broken Windows. This is apparently a reference to Stein's observation that "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose". The song also includes the refrain, "Gertrude Stein says that's enough."
The phrase 'a rose is a rose...' occurs in the musical 'Singing in the Rain', when Gene Kelly is receiving elocution lessons to allow him to move from silent films to talkies. He sings it with Donald O'Connor.
In the Latino literary classic "Yo-Yo Boing!," novelist Giannina Braschi pays homage to Gertrude Stein as an imaginary mentor.
In an episode of the television series The X-Files called "Bad Blood", the character Fox Mulder, played by David Duchovny, warns his partner, Dana Scully, played by Gillian Anderson, that if she goes to prison, "your cellmate's nickname is gonna be Large Marge, she's gonna read a lot of Gertrude Stein."
In "La Vie Boheme", a song of the musical Rent, a toast is made to Gertrude Stein.
The Elephant 6 band Olivia Tremor Control mentions Stein in their song "Define a Transparent Dream".
In Anastasia , Gertrude Stein is seen in a car singing "Where a rose is a rose!" during a musical number, "Paris Holds The Key to Your Heart".
In The Rutles' song "Another Day", a reference to her is made: "A glass of wine with Gertrude Stein,/I know I'll never share,/but I don't mind. That's just the kind/of cross each man must bear./I'm on my way,/I cannot stay another day."
In the Marvel comic Runaways, one character is named Gertrude Yorkes, while her boyfriend's name is Chase Stein.
Loving Repeating is a musical by Stephen Flaherty based on the writings of Gertrude Stein and is unified through a 1934 speech that Stein delivered at the University of Chicago. Stein and Alice B. Toklas are both characters in the eight person show.
In the Swedish film "The Adventures of Picasso" ("Picassos Äventyr") Bernard Cribbins plays a hilarious Gertrude Stein, who among other things dresses up as a pirate in a masquerade held by Henry Rousseau, almost cutting the head of Picasso with her sword, by accident. Wilfrid Brambell plays Alice B Toklas.
In Mame, a stage and film musical, the character Vera Charles declares in the song lyrics of "Bosom Buddies", "... but sweetie, I'll always be Alice Toklas if you'll be Gertrude Stein."
In the movie "Corrina, Corrina", Whoopi Goldberg quotes Gertrude Stein with "There is no there there", though she (Goldberg) is referring to a romantic relationship while Stein was describing the search for her childhood home in Oakland, California.
The artist Poe, wrote the song "A Rose is A Rose" for the album Lounge-a-palooza, and makes several references to Gertrude Stein and lesbian sexuality.
The musical band Le Tigre reference Gertrude Stein in their song "Hot Topic" from their 1999 self-titled album.
The band The Butchies include a song named Gertrude + Stein on their album Population 1975.
The Wilde Stein Alliance for Sexual Diversity, one of the first LGBT student organizations in the United States, is named in part after Gertrude Stein.
The cartoon series "Animaniacs" references Gertrude Stein in the episode entitled "Baloney & Kids." The Warners are forced to make faces on paper plates, Dot Warner choosing to make a charicature of Gertrude Stein.
The movie I Love You, Alice B. Toklas is a 1968 comedy film starring Peter Sellers. It featured a song of the same title by Harpers Bizarre.

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Selected Works

Three Lives (The Grafton Press, 1909)
White Wines, (1913)
objects, food, rooms (1914) online version
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)
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)

Primary sources

"A LA RECHERCHE D'UN JEUNE PEINTRE" Gertrude Stein /Yale University/U.S.A. "Looking for a young paintor" (Riba-Rovira)
Burns, Edward, ed., Gertrude Stein on Picasso (New York: Liveright Publishing Corp., 1970). ISBN 0-87140-513-X
---. The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946, 2 v. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986). ISBN 0-231-06308-3, ISBN 978-0-231-06308-1
---. The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder, co-ed. with Ulla Dydo (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996). ISBN 978-0-300-06774-3
---. Staying on Alone: Letters of Alice B. Toklas (New York: Liveright, 1973). ISBN 0-87140-569-5
Chessman, Harriet and Stimpson, Catharine R., eds. Gertrude Stein, Writings 1903-1932 (Library of America, 1998). ISBN 978-1-883011-40-6
---. Gertrude Stein, Writings 1932-1946 (Library of America, 1998). ISBN 978-1-883011-41-3
Grahn, Judy, ed. Really Reading Gertrude Stein: A Selected Anthology with Essays by Judy Grahn (Crossing Press, 1989). ISBN 0-89594-380-8
Stein, Gertrude. 1922. Geography and Plays. Mineola, NY: Dover, 1999. ISBN 048640874
---. 1932. Operas and Plays. Barrytown NY: Station Hill Arts, 1998. ISBN 1-886449-16-3
---. 1934. Portraits and Prayers. New York: Random House, 1934. ISBN 978-1-135-76198-1 ISBN 113576198
---. 1946. Gertrude Stein on Picasso (London, B.T. Batsford, Ltd. (1946) ISBN 978-0-87140-513-5, ISBN 0-87140-513-X
---. 1949. Last Operas and Plays. Ed. Carl van Vechten. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. ISBN 0-8018-4985-3
Vechten, Carl Van, ed. (1990). Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein. ISBN 0-679-72464-8

Secondary sources

Behrens, Roy R. COOK BOOK: Gertrude Stein, William Cook and Le Corbusier. Dysart, Iowa: Bobolink Books, 2005; ISBN 0-9713244-1-7.
Blackmer, Corrine E. "Gertrude Stein" in Summers, Claude J. (1995). The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage. ISBN 0-8050-5009-4.
Bowers, Jane Palatini. 1991. "They Watch Me as They Watch This":Gertrude Stein's Metadrama. Philadelphia: University of Pennstlvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-3057-4.
Dean, Gabrielle. "Grid Games: Gertrude Stein's Diagrams and Detectives" in Modernism/modernity 15:2 [2] April 2008), 317-41.
Grahn, Judy (1989). Really Reading Gertrude Stein: A Selected Anthology with essays by Judy Grahn. Freedom, California: The Crossing Press. ISBN 0-89594-380-8.
Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who Was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1975. ISBN 978-1-199-83299-3.
Kellner, Bruce, ed. A Gertrude Stein Companion: Content with the Example. New York, Westport, Connecticut, London: Greenwood Press, 1988. ISBN 0-313-25078-2.
Malcolm, Janet. Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice, London: Yale University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-300-12551-1
Malcom, Janet. Gertrude Stein's War, The New Yorker, June 2, 2003, p. 58-81
---. Strangers in Paradise, The New Yorker, November 13, 2006, p. 54-61.
Mellow, James R. Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Company. New York, Washington: Praeger Publishers, 1974. ISBN 0-395-47982-7
Perelman, Bob. The Trouble with Genius: Reading Pound, Joyce, Stein, and Zukofsky. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1994.
Rosenbaum, Fred, "San Francisco-Oakland: The Native Son", in Brinner, William M. & Rischin, Moses. Like All the Nations?: The Life and Legacy of Judah L. Magnes, State University of New York Press, 1987. ISBN 0-88706-507-4
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1970. ISBN 078100674.
Ryan, Betsy Alayne. 1984. Gertrude Stein's Theatre of the Absolute. Theater and Dramatic Studies Ser., 21. Ann Arbor and London: UMI Research Press. ISBN 0-8357-2021-7.
Renate Stendhal, ed., Gertrude Stein In Words and Pictures: A Photobiography. Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1989. ISBN 0-945575-99-8; ISBN 978-0-945575-99-3.
Truong, Monique. The book of salt, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003. A novel about a young Vietnamese cook who worked in Stein's Montparnasse-household.

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Total Books: 287

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2013 - The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9788087888346
ISBN-10: 8087888340
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction

1990 - The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780679724636
ISBN-10: 067972463X
Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction

Currently 3.2/5 Stars.

1984 - Picasso (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780486247151
ISBN-10: 0486247155
Genre: Arts & Photography

1975 - How to Write (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780486231440
ISBN-10: 0486231445
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Reference

Currently 4/5 Stars.

1972 - Ida (Paperback) → Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780394717975
ISBN-10: 039471797X
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 1.8/5 Stars.

1958 - 3 Lives (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780394701530
ISBN-10: 0394701534
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.

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