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[[Image:Gertrude Stein.png|right|200px]]
[[Image:Gertrude Stein.png|right|200px]]
'''Gertrude Stein''' was an American writer and one of the leaders of the literary [[modernism]] movement. Some of her most famous works include ''The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas'', ''The Making of Americans'', and ''Three Lives''. Noted for being highly innovative in her approach to language and writing, she was enormously influential on authors [[Ernest Hemingway]] and [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] (among others), as well as artist [[Pablo Picasso]]. She was the center and the most dominant personality in the [[Lost Generation]] circle of American ex-patriates in Paris in the 1920s.
'''Gertrude Stein''' (Allegheny, 1874 - Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1946) was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, of affluent educated German-Jewish immigrants. She studied psychology under [[William James]] (graduated magna cum laude in 1898), and made medical studies at Johns Hopkins Medical School (leaving to Paris with no degree, 1903). In 1922, she and her Jew lover Alice B. Toklas received from the French government the ''Medaille de la Reconnaissance Française''.
Stein was a poet and prominent writer and one of the leaders of the literary [[modernism]] movement. Some of her most famous works include ''The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas'', ''The Making of Americans'', and ''Three Lives''. Noted for being highly innovative in her approach to language and writing, she was enormously influential on authors [[Ernest Hemingway]] and [[F. Scott Fitzgerald]] (among others), as well as artists [[Pablo Picasso]] and [[Henri Matisse]]. She was the center and the most dominant personality in the [[Lost Generation]] circle of American expatriates in Paris in the 1920s and 1930s. ''Her Paris home'' (27, rue de Fleurus) ''was a mecca for writers and artists.'' <ref>[http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v16/v16n5p22_Weber.html Gertrude Stein's Complex Worldview] by Mark Weber</ref>
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Estranged from the organized Jewish community, in part because of her eccentricity and lesbianism, she nevertheless retained an acute and proud sense of her Jewishness. According to Wagner-Martin, Stein once said, "all men of genius had Jewish blood," and even developed a theory that [[Abraham Lincoln]] was part Jewish. [[Ibidem]]
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== Works ==
== Works ==
[[Image:Picasso_Gertrude_Stein.jpg|thumb|Portrait by Pablo Picasso 1903.]]
*Three Lives (1909)
*Three Lives (1909)
*Tender Button (1915); described as a "verbal collage"
*The Making of Americans. Being a History of a Family's Progress (1925)
*The Making of Americans. Being a History of a Family's Progress (1925)
*The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933)
*The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933)
== See also ==
== See also ==
*[[Georges Braque]]
*[[Juan Gris]]
== External links ==
*[http://womenshistory.about.com/od/gertrudestein/a/gertrude_stein.htm Gertrude Stein]
*[http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/gstein.htm Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)]
*[http://www.jewish-theatre.com/visitor/article_display.aspx?articleID=2735 Gertrude Stein in the very heart of an era of great creative output]
== References ==
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