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Gertrude Stein

American author (1874–1946)

  • Fame61.9
  • Momentum0.0
  • Wikipedia50.7K
Source-basedStable
Lived 1874–1946, aged 72United States
United States flagUnited StatesWritersWriter / Author
  • Wikipedia
    62 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Era
    1874–1946
    Aged 72
  • Known for
    Paris Was a Woman
    1996
Summary
Updated 2026-06-09

She wrote "a rose is a rose is a rose" and hosted the room where Hemingway, Picasso, and Fitzgerald sharpened their edges. Then a memoir written as her lover made her famous to people who'd never read her.

Biography

About

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; a…

Voice

In their own words

Sourced, dated quotes from Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein
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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
— This phrase was used as the title of a work published in 1931, but was originally used in Ch. LXII of A Novel of Thank You, written in
Gertrude Stein
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No sense in no sense innocence of what of not and what of delight.
— "Are There Arithmetics" (28 May 1927) [written in 1923]
Gertrude Stein
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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.
— Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (22 May 1925), published in Fitzgerald's The Crack-Up (1945)
Gertrude Stein
said
Let me recite what history teaches. History teaches.
— If I Told Him: A Completed Portrait of Picasso (1923). First published in Vanity Fair.
Gertrude Stein
said
The whole duty of man consists in being reasonable and just...
— Manuscript (1903), published in Q.E.D. Book 1, from Q.E.D., and Other Early Writings (1971)
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Fame
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61.9
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Historical25.8
Source confidence65.0
Completeness75.0
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Sources

  • Wikipedia
    wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org
    High confidence
  • Wikidata
    wikidata · wikidata.org
    High confidence
  • Pantheon 2.0
    database · pantheon.world
    High confidence