Gertrude Stein (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Howard Greenfeld
- First Published: 1973
- Time of Work: 1874–1946
- Setting: France, mostly Paris and Belignan
- Principal Characters: Gertrude Stein, Leo Stein, William James, Alice B. Toklas, Pablo Picasso, Virgil Thomson, Ernest Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, Thornton Wilder
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Intellectuals, Homosexuality or homosexuals, Authors or writers, Art or artists, Social life, Paris, 1920’s, Novelists, Lesbianism or lesbians, Painting or painters, Biography
- Locales: Paris, France
Form and Content
Howard Greenfeld divides Gertrude Stein: A Biography into ten chapters that consider Stein’s life, writing, and influence in chronological order from her birth in Allegheny, Pennsylvania on February 3, 1874, to her death in Paris on July 7, 1946. Some chapters are as short as three pages, while others are more than twenty. The details of Stein’s early life are covered concisely but accurately and with sufficient gusto that readers obtain an accurate sense of the young author’s unusual childhood. The book is illustrated with photographs that capture...
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