Sherwood Anderson/Gertrude Stein: Correspondence and Personal Essays.
Chapel Hill: University of N. Carolina, 1972. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Near Fine price-clipped dust jacket. One of the strangest literary friendships was that between Sherwood Anderson and Gertrude Stein. The fact that these two dissimilar writers were close friends and that the friendship was somehow important to the course of American literary history is known, but no one has documented before its depth and importance. Whatever the basis of this friendship, it has become part of the folklore of American literary history that the relationship was indeed significant. Anderson always claimed that Gertrude Stein's writing influenced his own literary style. Miss Stein always claimed to have great affection and appreciation for Sherwood Anderson. Both authors claimed to have influenced the course of American writing - through their own publications and through having taught the basics of fiction to such younger writers as Ernest Hemingway. There are few enough facts available to document these claims of friendship and influence, but together they have greatly influenced American literature and American literary history. This collection of the correspondence between Anderson and Stein spans the years 1921 to 1941 and includes their personal essays on each other. The 113 items represent their complete correspondence. Item #26758
ISBN: 0807811971
Price: $95.00