Thomson, Virgil - history and theory texts Benstock, Shari. Women of the Left Bank Paris, 1900-1940. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press,1986. [Serveying the Paris expatriate experience from a feminist perspective, she uncovers and clearly establishes the major role these gifted individualistic women, including Gertrude Stein, played in refining and redefining the founding principles of modernism.] Davies, Lawrence. Path to Modern Music. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1971. [In this book, Chapter 22 deals with Thomson, "who possesses a degree of articulacy so uncommon among musicians as to have made him a veritably unique spokesman for his country." The working relationship with Gertrude Stein Thomson is also discussed.] Stein, Gertrude. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933. [Stein mentions Thomson in this autobiography as one of the many prominent creative people attracted to her Parisian salon. She admiring his sense of prosody as well as his taste in art.] Wilson, Robert A. Gertrude Stein--A Bibliography. New York: The Phoenix Bookshop, 1974. [This a detailed bibliography of Stein.] 11/88