Gertrude Stein

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Gertrude Stein was an American modernist writer and art collector known for her experimental prose and for hosting an influential Paris salon that nurtured artists and authors such as Ernest Hemingway and Pablo Picasso.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf art collector
human
literary modernist
novelist
playwright
poet
writer
causeOfDeath stomach cancer
collectedWorkOf Henri Matisse
Pablo Picasso
Paul Cézanne
countryOfCitizenship United States of America
dateOfBirth 1874-02-03
dateOfDeath 1946-07-27
educatedAt Harvard University Annex
Johns Hopkins University
Radcliffe College
ethnicGroup Jewish
familyName Stein
fieldOfWork experimental literature
literature
modernist literature
fullName Gertrude Stein
genre autobiographical fiction
drama
prose poetry
givenName Gertrude
hasOccupation art collector
literary critic
writer
hosted Paris salon at 27 Rue de Fleurus
influenced Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sherwood Anderson
Thornton Wilder
William Carlos Williams
modernist literature
influencedBy Henri Bergson
Paul Cézanne
William James
languagesSpokenWrittenOrSigned English
French
memberOf Lost Generation
movement avant-garde
modernism
nativeLanguage English
notableFor Paris literary salon
experimental prose
notableIdea “A rose is a rose is a rose”
notableWork Everybody’s Autobiography
Four Saints in Three Acts
Geography and Plays
How to Write
Tender Buttons
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas
The Making of Americans
Three Lives
partner Alice B. Toklas
placeOfBirth Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
placeOfDeath Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
portrayedBy Pablo Picasso
religion Judaism
residence 27 Rue de Fleurus, Paris
Paris
sexOrGender female
sexualOrientation lesbian
workLocation Paris
United States of America


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