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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.
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Selected Books by Gertrude Stein
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Autobiography of Alice B Toklas (1933)
Fernhurst, QED, and Other Early Writings
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The Making of Americans (1934)
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A Primer for the Gradual Understanding of Gertrude Stein
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Stanzas in Meditation and Other Poems
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Selected Books About Gertrude Stein
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Gertrude Stein: A Biography of Her Work
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"Favored Strangers:" Gertrude Stein and Her Family
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Web Resources
Art Influencers: Gertrude Stein, from Art Story
Gertrude Stein, from The Met website
Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Papers, from the Beineke Rare Book & Manuscript Collection
Gertrude Stein Dies in France, 72, from the New York Times
Gertrude Stein Recordings, from PennSound
Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Gertrude Stein, from Smarthistory
The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein, from the National Endowment for the Humanities
When Gertrude Stein Toured America, from the Smithsonian
Who Was Gertrude Stein: A portrait in Five Quotes, from the Musee du Luxembourg
The Mother of Us All, an opera by Virgil Thompson (Score) and Gertrude Stein (Libretto)
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