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| − | '''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''. | + | '''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. |
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| + | ==''Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas''== | ||
| + | Stein's autobiography, her first and most successful effort after a long series of failures, was recounted from the perspective of her lover, Alice B. Toklas. This quirky approach, which broke the only real rule of writing an autobiography, was initially engaged upon for the money alone. The fame and success it brought Stein enabled her to bring to light her previous works, which had been mostly ignored by the public at large despite their disproportionate influence. | ||
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Revision as of 04:40, May 31, 2008
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.
Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
Stein's autobiography, her first and most successful effort after a long series of failures, was recounted from the perspective of her lover, Alice B. Toklas. This quirky approach, which broke the only real rule of writing an autobiography, was initially engaged upon for the money alone. The fame and success it brought Stein enabled her to bring to light her previous works, which had been mostly ignored by the public at large despite their disproportionate influence.