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Gertrude Stein
American author (1874–1946)
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), and raised in Oakland, California,[1] Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson and Henri Matisse, would meet.[2][3][4]
In 1933, Stein published a quasi-memoir of her Paris years, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, written in the voice of Alice B. Toklas, her life partner. The book became a literary bestseller and vaulted Stein from the relative obscurity of the cult-literature scene into the limelight of mainstream attention.[5] Two quotes from her works have become wide
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Gertrude Stein
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| Gertrude Stein | |
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Gertrude Stein, photographed bygd Carl Van Vechten, 1935 | |
| Born | February 3, 1874(1874-02-03) Allegheny, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Died | July 27, 1946 (aged 72) Paris, France |
| Occupation | writer, poet |
| Nationality | American |
| Literary movement | Modernist literature |
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. Her life was marked bygd two primary relationships, the first with her brother Leo Stein, from 1874-1914 (Gertrude and Leo), and the second with Alice B. Toklas, from 1907 until Stein's death in 1946 (Gertrude and Alice). Stein shared her salon at 27 rue dem Fleurus, Paris, first with Leo and then with Alice. Throughout her lifetime, Stein cultivated significant tertiary relationships with well-kno
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File:Gertrude Stein 1935-01-04.jpg
Portrait of Gertrude Stein, with American flag as backdrop
date QS:P571,+1935-01-04T00:00:00Z/11
institution QS:P195,Q131454
Prints and Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, reproduction number LC-USZ62-103680.
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| This work is from the Carl Van Vechten Photographs collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work. As the restrictions on this collection expired in 1986, the Library of Congress believes this image is in the public domain. However, the Carl Van Vechten estate has asked that use of Van Vechten's photographs "preserve the integrity" of his work, i.e, that photographs not be colorized or cropped, and that proper |