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The Notebooks of Gertrude Stein for The Making of Americans

The Making of Americans by Gertrude Stein annotated with cross references to The Notebooks of Gertrude Stein for The Making of American, 1903-1912, edited by Leon Katz, based on interviews with Alice B. Toklas 1,712 pages This edition of The Making of Americans combines the novel with Leon Katz’s long anticipated full reconstruction, editing, annotation and “decoding” of Stein’s notebooks covering her early years in Paris and her creation of her great modernist masterpiece. The Notebooks 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 novel but could also shed enormous light on her famous life in in France and her relationships with Picasso, Matisse, Hemingway, and hundreds more. The Notebooks contains transcriptions of Stein’s notebook entries Comments by Alice B. Toklas on the individual entries, elicited by Katz over 5 months in 1954 Further comments by Katz on the entries and on Toklas’ reactions. Katz’s theory of

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