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About Gertrude Stein
American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector
Gertrude Stein was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. She became a central figure in Parisian modernist circles after moving to France in 1903, and she spent the rest of her life there. She hosted a salon in Paris that brought together major writers and artists of the era, including Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson, and Henri Matisse. Her place in literary history rests on that role as much as on her own writing.
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- “To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.”Gertrude Stein
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Books by Gertrude Stein
Tender Buttons
1965
Three Lives
1979
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
1933
Picasso
2021
How to Write
1931