Volume 21, Number 9 · May 30, 1974
The Pleasures of Gertrude Stein
By Donald Sutherland
Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company
by James R. Mellow
Praeger, 528 pp., $12.95
Reflection on the Atomic Bomb: Vol I of the Previously Uncollected Writings of Gertrude Stein
edited by Robert Bartlett Haas
Black Sparrow Press, 164 pp., $4.00 (paper)
How Writing Is Written: Vol II of the Previously Uncollected Writings of Gertrude Stein
edited by Robert Bartlett Haas
Black Sparrow Press, 161 pp., $4.00 (paper)
Beginning with her own The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in 1933 and Everybody's Autobiography in 1937, there have been longer and shorter versions of Gertrude Stein's biography, in greater or less detail, over lo! these forty years and they still keep coming. In 1957 there was Gertrude Stein, Her Life and Work, by Elizabeth Sprigge, in 1959 The Third Rose, Gertrude Stein and Her World, by John Malcolm Brinnin, and in 1963 What Is Remembered, by Alice B. Toklas. Last year there were four biographies of Gertrude Stein for children. And now, on the hundredth anniversary of her birth, there is the largest and most elaborate of them all, by the art critic and historian James R. Mellow.
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