Gertrude Stein

Modernist author Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on February 3, 1874. Stein moved to Paris in 1903, embarking on a literary career that p...

The years in Occupied France.

When I first visited “The Steins Collect” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in late April, I had wondered about the omission of Gertrude Stein’s …

In 1874 the ground was fertile for Gertrude Stein to become a woman of virile thoughts even in her youth. After having been born in a small industrial town near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, little Gertrude Stein took to a life abroad at age one--crawling, then walking in Vienna, America, and elsewhere in Europe, under the care of her capricious, travel-happy father, her mother, and her four siblings.

Gertrude Stein’s style is the most deliberately naïve style in which any good writer has ever worked, and it is also the most “faux-naïf,” the most…

Gertrude Stein was an American author and poet best known for her modernist writings, extensive art collecting and literary salon in 1920s Paris.

Gertrude Stein, avant-garde American writer, eccentric, and self-styled genius whose Paris home was a salon for the leading artists and writers of the period between World Wars I and II. Stein spent her infancy in Vienna and in Passy, France, and her girlhood in Oakland, Calif. She entered the