
Title
The Boy with the Interested Eyes: Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Explores the course of Hemingway’s turbulent relationship with Gertrude Stein, discussing the devolution of their friendship as Hemingway grew increasingly successful and determined to break from his literary mentors. Covers the writers’ scathing portraits of each other in their respective texts: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933) and A Moveable Feast.
Published in
Literary Feuds: A Century of Celebrated Quarrels—from Mark Twain to Tom Wolfe
Date
2002
Pages
23-48
Citation
Arthur, Anthony. “The Boy with the Interested Eyes: Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein.” In Literary Feuds: A Century of Celebrated Quarrels—from Mark Twain to Tom Wolfe, 23-48. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2002.