Gertrude Stein Quick Facts

American novelist, essayist, and poet

Birth	February 3, 1874
Death	July 27, 1946
Place of Birth	Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Principal Residence	Paris, France
Known for	Writing unconventional and abstract works that emphasize words and language rather than content
	Influencing the Parisian artistic and literary community of the early 20th century
Milestones	1897 Graduated from Radcliffe College and began medical school at Johns Hopkins University
	1903 Moved to Paris, where she lived with her brother and began collecting art
	1909 Published her first book, Three Lives, an analysis of the lives of three women; her companion of two years, American writer Alice B. Toklas, moved into her Paris home
	1914 Published the experimental work Tender Buttons
	1925 Published The Making of Americans
	1930 Published the novel Lucy Church Amiably
	1933 Published The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, which was really Stein's own autobiography
	1934 Her opera Four Saints in Three Acts was performed in the United States.
	1946 Published Brewsie and Willie, a story based on the lives of American soldiers after World War II
	1950 One of her earliest works, Things as They Are, was posthumously published. Stein wrote this book in 1903 under the title Q.E.D.
Quote	'Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. 'Sacred Emily,' 1913
Did You Know	Stein studied under American psychologist William James, and published two papers in Psychological Review.
	Stein found medical school boring, and failed to complete her degree.
	Before moving to Paris, Stein spent time in London studying Elizabethan literature at the British Museum.
	After moving to Paris, Stein returned to the United States only once, in 1934, for a lecture tour. She published these talks as Lectures in America (1935).
	Stein's Paris apartment was a central location for many well-known 20th-century figures, including Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, French artist Henri Matisse, and American writers Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
	Spanish artist Pablo Picasso's 1906 portrait of Gertrude Stein hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

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