The late playwright Win Wells had considerable resources from which to draw as he wrote Gertrude Stein and a Companion, a play that imagines a reminiscing reunion between Stein and Alice B. Toklas ...

One is not born but laboriously fashioned into a Great Writer, usually posthumously, always with the aid of a cast of supporting characters: agents, publishers, critics, literary executors, scholars, ...

Janet Malcolm once remarked that most well-read people have not read Gertrude Stein’s “The Making of Americans.” Famously inscrutable, Stein’s opus exceeds nine hundred pages and sets out to tell the ...

What to do with Gertrude Stein? Decades after her death, she still bestrides the literary landscape like a mastodon, impossible to ignore, determined to take up space. A confrere of Pablo Picasso, ...