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'''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 Jewish lover Alice B. Toklas received from the French government the ''Medaille de la Reconnaissance Française''.

'''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>

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>