- Gertrude Stein was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector
| Born: | 03 February 1874 Comment | | When did Gertrude Stein die? / Died | 27 July 1946 | | How many years did Gertrude Stein live? / Lived | 72 years | | Zodiac sign: | Aquarius |
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Gertrude Stein facts
- Born in the Allegheny West neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Oakland, California, 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 in modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F
- Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Henri Matisse would meet
- In 1933, Stein published a kind-of memoir of her Paris years, The Autobiography of Alice B
- Toklas, written in the voice of her life partner, Alice B
- Toklas
- Toklas was an American-born member of the Parisian avant-garde
- The book became a literary bestseller and vaulted Stein from the relative obscurity of the cult literarure scene into the limelight of mainstream attention
- Two quotes from her works have become widely known: "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" and "there is no there there", with the latter often taken to be a reference to her childhood home of Oakland, California
- Her books include Q
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