Gertrude stein writing style and biography
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Gertrude Stein
American author (1874–1946)
Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), and raised in Oakland, California,[1] Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson and Henri Matisse, would meet.[2][3][4]
In 1933, Stein published a quasi-memoir of her Paris years, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, written in the voice of Alice B. Toklas, her life partner. The book became a literary bestseller and vaulted Stein from the relative obscurity of the cult-literature scene into the limelight of mainstream attention.[5] Two quotes from her works have become wide
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Gertrude Stein
art-collector, writer, modernist celebrity patron
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American writer and art-collector who went to live in Paris and became a celebrated figure in the European modernist movement between 1910 and 1930. She was personally acquainted with artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, and at her soirees she entertained writers such as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. She wrote memoirs and novels, developed an avant-garde prose style, and had a famously lesbian relationship with her fellow expatriate Alice B. Toklas. She lived through two world wars, and had what is now seen as a very dubious attitude to the political events of her era.
Gertrude Stein – life and work
Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, which is now part of Pittsburg. Her parents were upper middle class Jews with holdings in real estate. When she was three the family moved to live in Vienna, then to Paris, before retur
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The insight and mystery of Everybody's Autobiography by Gertrude Stein
I have no idea how this book fell into my hands as a teenager or why it captivated me. Maybe it was the audacious trick of writing your autobiography using your own partner as a sort of puppet. Maybe inom was agape at the accounts of all these incredibly famous historical figures actually samling somewhere to talk with friends, about art. The closest experience I had was university tutorial groups where inom thought most of my fellow students were meatheads. Maybe it was the båge tone and the style utterly unlike anything I'd ever read. At any rate, it fired my imagination and a sense of nostalgia for ingenting I had ever known and has survived years of successive culls, remaining one of the few non-children's books in my more-or-less permanent collection.
Many years later in a moment of serendipity I recognised her name on the cover of a different book: Everybody's Autobiography.
As its intro explained