Features 27 American writers who talk about their lives and work. This title includes recordings of two early American winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature: Sinclair Lewis and Pearl Buck. It also features Arthur Miller who talks about his marriage to Marilyn Monroe, and John Steinbeck who talks about why he wrote The Grapes of Wrath .

Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, but was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and race into lives that offered little choice. This book is a collection of documents from the history of women's suffrage, medical history, modernist art, and literature.

An astounding take on Flaubert by one of the great American novelists.

An autobiography of Gertrude Stein and a roll-call of the painters and writers she met between 1903 and 1932. It is a definitive account by her in Paris.

Pablo Picasso was one of the most prodigious and revolutionary artists in the history of Western painting. Gertrude Stein was an avant-garde American writer, art collector, eccentric and self-styled genius. Picasso painted Stein's portrait and they became firm friends. This book presents the correspondence they exchanged.

The American writer Gertrude Stein lived in Paris from 1903. With her brother Leo she acted as patron for a number of soon-to-be famous artists, most notably Pablo Picasso. First published in 1940, this is her memoir of those times.

A selection of the works of the author taken from the period between 1905 and 1936, when he was engaged in an astounding number of still-surprising literary experiments, whose innovations continue to influence various arts.

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