Gertrude Stein
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, 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.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. 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.
Her books include ''Q.E.D.'' (1903), about a lesbian romantic affair involving several of Stein's friends; ''Fernhurst'', a fictional story about a love triangle; ''Three Lives'' (1905–06); ''The Making of Americans'' (1902–1911); and ''Tender Buttons'' (1914).
Her activities during World War II have been the subject of analysis and commentary. As a Jew living in Nazi-occupied France, Stein may have only been able to sustain her lifestyle as an art collector, and indeed to ensure her physical safety, through the protection of the powerful Vichy government official and Nazi collaborator Bernard Faÿ. After the war ended, Stein expressed admiration for another Nazi collaborator, Vichy leader Marshal Pétain. Provided by Wikipedia
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The letters of Gertrude Stein and Thornton Wilder / by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
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The letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946 / by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
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A description of acquaintance : the letters of Laura Riding and Gertrude Stein, 1927-1930 / by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
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Geography and plays. by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
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Wars I have seen, by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
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Matisse, Picasso, and Gertrude Stein, with two shorter stories. by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
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Last operas and plays. by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
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Picasso. by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
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Reflection on the atomic bomb. by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
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How writing is written. by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
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Alphabets and birthdays. by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
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The making of Americans; being a history of a family's progress. by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
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Painted lace, and other pieces, 1914-1937. by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
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...Lectures in America. by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
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Three lives / by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
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Selected writings of Gertrude Stein. by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
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Stanzas in meditation, and other poems, 1929-1933. by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
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Dear Sammy : letters from Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas / by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
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Narration; four lectures. by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
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Paris France / by Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946
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