Francesca Wade on Gertrude Stein

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

Book jacket of Gertrude Stein An Afterlife
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 writer Francesca Wade in conversation with writer and editor Erica Wagner, to 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.

 

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).