SHORTLISTED FOR THE AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS BOOK AWARD 2025 ''Strikingly accomplished . . . utterly compelling.'' SUNDAY TIMES ''A masterpiece of biography.'' DAILY TELEGRAPH ''A total joy to read.'' SARAH BAKEWELL ''I feel like I''ve been waiting for this book my whole life.'' SHEILA HETI From the celebrated author of Square Haunting comes a biography as unconventional and surprising as the life it tells. ''Think of the Bible and Homer think of Shakespeare and think of me,'' Stein wrote. Admirers called her a genius, sceptics a charlatan. Gertrude Stein remains one of the most confounding - and contested - writers of the twentieth century. The host of glamorous salons at 27 rue de Fleurus, brushing shoulders with Picasso and Hemingway in her long brown robe, Stein never ceased plotting her own legacy. She would be known as the literary innovator of her time. And her enigmatic partner, Alice B. Toklas, would make sure of it.

Autorentext
Francesca Wade is the author of Square Haunting, which was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize. She has received fellowships from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, the Leon Levy Center for Biography and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. Her work has appeared in the New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, Granta, Paris Review and other places. She lives in London.

Klappentext

From the author of the critically acclaimed Square Haunting comes an unconventional biography of the inimitable and uncompromising artist, Gertrude Stein.