Francesca Wade & Deborah Levy on Gertrude Stein

Sun 26 Apr 2026 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Headshots of Francesca Wade and Deborah Levy
Book jacket of Gertrude Stein An Afterlife
Book jacket for My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein
erica wagner

Avant-garde American writer and art collector who made her home in Paris, godmother of modernism, queer icon, friend to Picasso and Hemingway, and self-declared genius, Gertrude Stein has been enduringly fascinating for a century. Join two of our boldest writers, Francesca Wade and Deborah Levy, who will discuss the enigma that is Gertrude Stein.

Chaired by writer and editor Erica Wagner. 

Venue: Old Divinity School

Duration: 1 hour

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Author Biography

Francesca Wade is the author of Square Haunting, which was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize and shortlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize. She has received fellowships from the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, the Leon Levy Center for Biography and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute, and her work has appeared in the New York Review of Books, London Review of Books, Granta, Paris Review and other places. She lives in London.

Deborah Levy is the author of several novels including August Blue, Hot Milk and Swimming Home, alongside a formally innovative, critically acclaimed ‘living autobiography’ trilogy: Things I Don’t Want to Know, The Cost of Living and Real Estate. She has been shortlisted twice each for the Goldsmiths Prize and Booker Prize and won the Prix Femina Etranger. She has also written for The Royal Shakespeare Company and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Chair Biography

Erica Wagner was born in New York and moved to the UK in the 1980s becoming literary Editor for The Times in 1996; a position she held for 17 years. In addition to her career at The Times, Erica has published numerous articles and books. She has also written for The New York Times and frequently appears on television and radio, and has judged many of the literary World’s most prestigious prizes (The Orange Prize, The Whitbread First Novel Award and the Forward Prize).