Gertrude Stein

American author (1874–1946)

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Lived 1874–1946, aged 72United States

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1874–1946
Aged 72

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Updated 2026-05-29

Stein ran the most important literary salon in 1920s Paris, where Picasso, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald congregated around her opinions on modernism. Her writing experiments and art collecting made her a tastemaker architects of the era credited with discovering.

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Gertrude Stein was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and raised in Oakland, California, 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.

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