Gertrude Stein was one of America's most influencial writers and thinkers of the twentieth century and is considered by many to be a creator of modernism. This groundbreaking publication and accompanying exhibition present for the first time an in-depth portrait of Stein that knits together her many identities - literary celebrity, lifelong partner of Alice B. Toklas, arts networker whose famous friendships included some of the most prominent artists and writers of her time, Jewish American expatriate, and muse to artists of several generations. This project, 'Seeing Gerturde Stein: Five Stories,' details Stein's life and work as an artist and collector and places them in the larger context of her visual world for the first time. We are also introduced to Stein as a distinctive style-maker and as an expatriate American writer whose life intersected with that of internationally recognized artists and visual culture, from 1903, when she first arrived in Paris, until 1946, when she died there.In the section entitled 'Artist Books,'Stein's book "The World is Round' that is held by the Sackner Archive is described and depicted. The concrete poet Emmett Williams whose book "13 Variations" is also included in this chapter that is also held by the Sackner Archive is described as "an American concrete poet [who] used the shape, placement, and typography of words to create meaning. He took as his platform thirteen nine-inch-square sheets of white paper and , as his paint brushes, six rubber stamps... Williams eliminated the distinction between word and image: for him word is image, and image is word. What is customarily a dialogue between two media becomes one, or as Stein might have put it, two in one." The Sackner Archive also contains a deluxe copy of "Ten Portraits - Dix Portraits" 1930 (ten copies with a handwritten page by Stein), translated into French by the poet Georges Hugnet in collaboration with his composer friend, Virgil Thomson. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.