Wineapple Publishes Essay In Jama

"Gertrude Stein Reads JAMA," a new essay by Brenda Wineapple, Washington Irving Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies, has appeared in the Oct. 9 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Having unearthed a heretofore unknown manuscript by Gertrude Stein, written circa 1902, Wineapple discusses JAMA's turn-of-the-century medical (and moral) attitudes toward childbirth, attitudes that inspired the neophyte writer and former medical student, Gertrude Stein, to her own surprising response. The manuscript is included in Wineapple's new biography, Sister Brother Gertrude and Leo Stein (G.P. Putnam's), which is being translated into German for publication by Archie Verlag.