Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American poet, novelist, art collector, and playwright who famously hosted a Paris salon frequented by the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, and Ernest Hemingway. Before she was a patron to The Lost Generation artists, Stein was an esteemed author who influenced many 20th-century writers with her innovative and experimental prose. First published in 1933, Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein contains three prose pieces written in the stream-of-consciousness style that Stein was famous for. A modernist classic not to be missed by fans and collectors of Stein’s seminal work. Contents include: The Work of Gertrude Stein, by Sherwood Anderson , A Long Gay Book , Many Many Women , and G. M. P. Other notable works by this author include: Three Lives (1909), White Wines (1913), and An Exercise in Analysis (1917). Read & Co. Classics is republishing this work now in a new edition complete with an introductory essay by Sherwood Anderson.