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Gertrude Stein’s salon at 27 rue de Fleurus in the 6th arrondissement of Paris is the stuff of literary legend. A place that once entertained and fostered the likes of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse, but also where Stein herself forged her literary legacy with her partner Alice B. Tolkas. In Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife, this new biography of the polarizing, trailblazing author, collector, and salonnière, Francesca Wade rescues Stein from the tangle of contradictions that has characterized her life and legacy. Drawing on never-before-seen interviews, this richly researched, sweeping piece of storytelling pushes beyond the conventions of literary biography presenting this towering literary figure who broke the rules and shaped 20th century literature.

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Francesca Wade

Francesca Wade is the author of Square Haunting: Five Writers in London Between the Wars (2020). She has received fellowships from the Dorothy and Lewis B.

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