Gertrude Stein (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
Biography
Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on February 3, 1874, the youngest of five children in a well-to-do Jewish family of German descent. Before she was a year old, her family began a sojourn in Austria and France that would last five years. Stein's early exposure to the sound of English, German, and French may account for her conviction that words possess a weight and shape of their own.
Her childhood and adolescence were spent in Oakland, California, on a ten-acre farm where she grew up close to nature and the simple domestic objects that...
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