Stein, Gertrude
Stein, Gertrude ( 1874 – 1946 ),American author, born in Pennsylvania into a progressive and intellectual family of German–Jewish origin. She studied psychology at Radcliffe College, where she was a student of W. James , and then studied the anatomy of the brain at Johns Hopkins . In 1902 she went with her brother Leo to Paris, where she settled; her home in the rue de Fleurus became a literary salon and art gallery and a home of the avant-garde, attracting painters (including Picasso , Matisse , and Juan Gris ) and writers (including Hemingway , F. M. Ford , and S. Anderson , but not Joyce , with whom she was not acquainted). Her friend, secretary, and companion from 1907 was San Francisco-born Alice B. Toklas ( 1877 – 1967 ), whom she made the ostensible author of her own memoir, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas ( 1933 ). Her fiction includes Three Lives ( 1909...
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