Steven Watson is a cultural historian of the American avant-garde. He is the author of Harlem Renaissance (1995), The Birth of the Beat Generation (1995), and Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avant-Garde (1991).

"Mr. Watson does an engaging job of conjuring up the overlapping worlds his subjects inhabited: the feud-ridden expatriate community in Paris where Thomson and Stein met in the 1920's and the trend-setting bohemia of 1930's New York, where Thomson would find the patrons and promoters who would get Four Saints produced."

• ACT I: CONCEPTPrologue: Introducing Four Saints in Three Acts1. The World of 27, Rue de Fleurus2. Virgil Thomson: Roots in Time and Place3. Virgil and Gertrude Write an Opera4. A Transatlantic Love Affair5. Virgil Thomson Visits AmericaACT II: TASTE6. Young Harvard Moderns7. A Personal Break, a Commercial Breakthrough8. Group Snapshot 1932: The Harvard Moderns9. The World of the Stettheimers10. High Bohemia and Modernism11. Modernism Goes UptownACT III: SHOW12. Negotiations and Exchanges13. Snapshots: Summer 193314. Collaborators: Not the Usual Suspects15. Rehearsals in Harlem16. Opening Night17. Four Saints Goes to BroadwayEPILOGUE18. AftermathNotesBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex

Steven Watson is a cultural historian of the American avant-garde. He is the author of Harlem Renaissance (1995), The Birth of the Beat Generation (1995), and Strange Bedfellows: The First American Avant-Garde (1991).

"Mr. Watson does an engaging job of conjuring up the overlapping worlds his subjects inhabited: the feud-ridden expatriate community in Paris where Thomson and Stein met in the 1920's and the trend-setting bohemia of 1930's New York, where Thomson would find the patrons and promoters who would get Four Saints produced."

• ACT I: CONCEPTPrologue: Introducing Four Saints in Three Acts1. The World of 27, Rue de Fleurus2. Virgil Thomson: Roots in Time and Place3. Virgil and Gertrude Write an Opera4. A Transatlantic Love Affair5. Virgil Thomson Visits AmericaACT II: TASTE6. Young Harvard Moderns7. A Personal Break, a Commercial Breakthrough8. Group Snapshot 1932: The Harvard Moderns9. The World of the Stettheimers10. High Bohemia and Modernism11. Modernism Goes UptownACT III: SHOW12. Negotiations and Exchanges13. Snapshots: Summer 193314. Collaborators: Not the Usual Suspects15. Rehearsals in Harlem16. Opening Night17. Four Saints Goes to BroadwayEPILOGUE18. AftermathNotesBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex