Description
Author: Gertrude Stein
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/17/1990
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9780679724636
ISBN10: 067972463X
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
- Literary Criticism | American | General
- Biography & Autobiography | Women
About the Author
Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on February 3, 1874. At Radcliffe College she studied under William James, who remained her lifelong friend, and then went to Johns Hopkins to study medicine. Abandoning her studies, she moved to Paris with her brother Leo in 1903. At 27 rue de Fleurus, Gertrude Stein lived with Alice B. Toklas, who would remain her companion for 40 years. Not only was she an innovator in literature and a supporter of modern poetry and art, she was the friend and mentor of those who visited her at her now-famous home: Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Jean Cocteau, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, and Guillaume Apollinaire. Her body of work include Three Lives, Tender Buttons, The Making of Americans, and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.