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Gertrude Stein


Born
in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, The United States
February 03, 1874

Died
July 27, 1946

Genre
Art, Poetry, Fiction


Gertrude Stein 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 by two primary relationships, the first with her brother Leo Stein, from 1874-1914, and the second with Alice B. Toklas, from 1907 until Stein's death in 1946. Stein shared her salon at 27 rue de Fleurus, Paris, first with Leo and then with Alice. Throughout her lifetime, Stein cultivated significant tertiary relationships with well-known members of the avant garde artistic and literary world of her time. ...more

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Average rating: 3.48 · 38,850 ratings · 4,421 reviews · 432 distinct works • Similar authors
The Autobiography of Alice ...
3.53 avg rating — 13,730 ratings — published 1933 — 92 editions
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Tender Buttons
3.64 avg rating — 7,349 ratings — published 1914 — 961 editions
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Three Lives
3.06 avg rating — 4,674 ratings — published 1909
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Picasso
3.70 avg rating — 1,829 ratings — published 1938 — 8 editions
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Paris France
3.32 avg rating — 2,023 ratings — published 1940 — 63 editions
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The World is Round
3.83 avg rating — 687 ratings — published 1939 — 64 editions
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Food
1.92 avg rating — 1,237 ratings
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Ida
3.28 avg rating — 681 ratings — published 1971
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The Making of Americans
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3.53 avg rating — 611 ratings — published 1925 — 52 editions
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Selected Writings
3.86 avg rating — 557 ratings — published 1962 — 17 editions
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“We are always the same age inside. ”
― Gertrude Stein
tags: self-confidence
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“One must dare to be happy. ”
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“It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
― Gertrude Stein
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