Gertrude Stein’s Complex Worldview
Gertrude Stein with American novelist Thornton Wilder, southern France, summer 1937. Scholars of the life of Gertrude Stein were recently startled to learn that in 1938 the prominent Jewish-American writer had spearheaded a campaign urging the Nobel committee to award its Peace Prize to Adolf Hitler. This was disclosed by Gustav Hendrikksen, a former member…