Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946

Edward Burns is professor of English at William Paterson University and editor of A Tour of the Darkling Plain: The "Finnegans Wake" Letters of Thornton Wilder and Adaline Glasheen; A Passion for Joyce: The Letters of Hugh Kenner and Adaline Glasheen; and The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder.

[Burns] has arranged and annotated these [letters] with extraordinary skill and diligence. Times Literary Supplement The Stein-Van Vechten letters reveal, afresh and anew, the world of twentieth-century genius and bohemia. Edward Burns has edited this human archive with the deeply-informed precision of a leading Stein scholar. -- Catharine R. Stimpson, New York University Burns's editing is a monument of patient scholarship. New York Times Book Review Important... detailed and copious annotations plus cross-references supplement the first-rate editorial job... The correspondence tells the story of a writer sustaining her hard-won independence and a supporter who tirelessly promoted her work. Journal of Modern Literature Burns's patient attention to details makes this an important reference for studies of Stein's literary texts, and its editorial precision sets a much-needed standard for future editions of Stein. Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature Scholars will be grateful for Burns's thoroughly annotated and comprehensive volume. CHOICE