# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-09-02T07:02:08.756Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Gertrude Stein left Oakland for Paris in 1903 and turned her salon into modernism's living room—Picasso, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Matisse all passed through. She published experimental work nobody bought: Q.E.D., Three Lives, The Making of Americans, Tender Buttons. In 1933 she wrote The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas in her partner's voice, and the book became a bestseller that pulled her out of cult obscurity into mainstream attention. During World War II, as a Jew in Nazi-occupied France, she may have survived only through the protection of Vichy official Bernard Faÿ, a Nazi collaborator; after the war she praised Vichy leader Marshal Pétain. She died in 1946, leaving behind the line "there is no there there"—usually assumed to mean Oakland.