The Notebooks of Gertrude Stein: for The Making of Americans, 1903-1912

The Notebooks of Gertrude Stein for The Making of Americans , 1903 -1912 , book is Professor Leon Katz's long anticipated full reconstruction, editing, annotation and "decoding" of Gertrude Stein's Notebooks covering her early years in Paris and her creation of her great modernist masterpiece, The Making of Americans .This book was born in Yale University’s Beinecke Library in 1954, when Professor Katz found several boxes of Stein's papers and began to put them in order, soon realizing they contained not only the source material, from Gertrude's own life, that could for the first time make comprehensible the dense impenetrable prose of The Making of Americans but also could shed enormous light on her famous life in France, her relationships with Picasso, Matisse, Hemingway and hundreds more.The Notebooks \ Over the years and decades the reputation of this book has grown enormous.