One version of Gertrude Stein's life (1874-1946)--the story of the idiosyncratic art collector and writer, ruling the expatriates in Paris with her immense personal power--has been told so often that it has become a piece of Americana, burnished to a high gloss through repetition. Inspired by extensive original research, Linda Wagner-Martin breaks with that tradition in this major new biography. Here we find Gertrude Stein as we have never seen her...