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This is not intended to be a critique of Stein's work, I'll leave that up to the literary experts...but, instead a websize biography of her life.
Included are many "steinism" quotes, and comments by others...along with a selection of photographs from Gertrude Stein's World.
FOOTNOTES: Alice B. Toklas died on March 7, 1967...out living Gertrude by 21 years. She is buried beside her companion of 39 years in Pere Lachaise cemetery, Paris, France.
Gertrude Stein produced over 400 pieces of work and most are found in the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. The pictures at this site are from Yale University, The Bancroft Library, and the Cecil Beaton Archives.
some of my own steinisms:
- when I'm alone I am...when I'm not I'm not
- out of bordom comes something, the yin and the yang
- to begin is more interesting than to finish
- it is better to be somebody than nobody then nobody is somebody
- the negative + the positive = something
- understatement is an art, it has its own mystery
- excellence is in the details, greatness was always there
- fairness is an apple or a bushel, who is to say
more photos from Gertrude Stein's world
Caesar's Head photo (large)
REFERENCES
- The Third Rose, John Malcolm Brinnin, Little, Brown Company, 1959 (out of print)
- Gertrude Stein: In Words and Pictures, Edited by Renate Stendhal, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1994
- Everybody's Autobiography, Gertrude Stein, Exact Change, 1991 (originally published by Random House, 1937)
- The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Gertrude Stein, Vintage Books, 1990 (originally published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933)
- Gertrude Stein Reads, audio tape, HarperCollins, 1996
OTHER RELATED STEIN LINKS
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