Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Inspired by extensive original research, Linda Wagner-Martin breaks with tradition in this major new biography. Here we find Gertrude Stein as we have never seen her before: as a member of her German-Jewish patriarchal family, as an undergraduate at Radcliffe, as an odd sort of feminist, as a medical student at Johns Hopkins University, as a lesbian and a lover, as an art collector, as a war survivor, and much more - as a person and not just a modernist icon.
Throughout, her relationship with two of her older brothers - Michael and Leo - shaped her emotional existence, just as her commitment to writing shaped her intellectual life.
This fascinating portrait of Gertrude Stein's life (1874-1946) offers a rich history of "The Stein Corporation." Wagner-Martin provides new insight into the influence of Alice B.
Toklas, a look into the economic side of the family's existence, and the intimate story of the Steins' relationships with Matisse, Picasso, Gris, and other painters; and later, of Gertrude Stein's relationships with Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Virgil Thomson, Thornton Wilder, Janet Flanner, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and many other colorful modernist writers and artists in the rue de Fleurus salon.
This biography also gives us a previously untold but chilling account of Gertrude Stein's and Alice Toklas's survival during World War II in France, and Leo Stein's in Italy.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Previews available in: English
Subjects
Friends and associates, Américains, Biographies, American Authors, Lesbians, Art, Biographie, History, Families, Family, Intellectual life, Histoire, Familienleben, Americans, Biography, Vie intellectuelle, Family relationships, Famille, Collectors and collecting, American Women authors, Stein, gertrude, 1874-1946, Paris (france), intellectual life, Americans, france, Family, history, Art, collectors and collecting, Lesbians, biography, Authors, biography, Female Homosexuality, Women, Literature, Friendship, BiografiePlaces
Paris, United States, Paris (France), FranceTimes
1900-1945, 20th centuryShowing 3 featured editions. View all 3 editions?
Edition | Availability |
---|---|
1
Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family
November 1997, Rutgers University Press
Paperback
in English
0813524741 9780813524740
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
2
Favored strangers: Gertrude Stein and her family
1995, Rutgers University Press
in English
0813521696 9780813521695
|
cccc
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
3
Favored strangers: Gertrude Stein and her family
1995, Rutgers University Press
in English
0813521696 9780813521695
|
cccc
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?History
- Created April 29, 2008
- 11 revisions
Wikipedia citation
×CloseCopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help?
January 14, 2023 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
December 8, 2022 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
August 30, 2020 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
October 8, 2017 | Edited by MARC Bot | merge duplicate works of 'Favored strangers' |
April 29, 2008 | Created by an anonymous user | Imported from amazon.com record |