Gertrude Stein Writer

Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American writer of novels, poetry and plays. Born in West Allegheny (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, making France her home for the remainder of her life. A literary innovator and pioneer of Modernist literature, Stein’s work broke with the narrative, linear, and temporal conventions of 19th-century. She was also known as a collector of Modernist art.In 1933, Stein published a kind of memoir of her Paris years, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, written in the voice of Toklas, her life partner. The book became a literary bestseller and vaulted Stein from the relative obscurity of cult literary figure into the light of mainstream attention.

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Birth date	February 03, 1874
Birth place	Allegheny Pennsylvania
Date of death	July 27, 1946
Place of death	Paris , Neuilly-sur-Seine

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influenced	Ernest Hemingway Language poets William H. Gass Michael Palmer (poet) Richard Wright (author) Thornton Wilder John Ashbery Paul Bowles Giannina Braschi
influenced by	Pablo Picasso Alice B. Toklas William James Leo Stein
movement	Literary modernism