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Gertrude Stein

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From: Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Date: 20070301
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(born Feb. 3, 1874, Allegheny City, Pa., U.S.—died July 27, 1946, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) U.S. avant-garde writer. Born to a wealthy family, Stein studied at Radcliffe College before moving to Paris, where from 1909 she lived with her companion Alice B. Toklas (1877–1967). Their home was a salon for leading artists and writers, including Pablo Picasso , Henri Matisse , Georges Braque , Sherwood Anderson , and Ernest Hemingway . An early supporter of Cubism , she tried to parallel its theories in her work, including the poetry volume Tender Buttons (1914). Her prose was characterized ...

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