Gertrude Stein
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.
Books by Gertrude Stein
3 books available
Three Lives
by Gertrude Stein
3.1(3,437)
Gertrude Stein's "Three Lives" shows the inner lives of three ordinary working-class women, turning their simple existences into a look at human consciousness and an easy way into her new literary style.
Tender Buttons
by Gertrude Stein
3.7(5,532)
Gertrude Stein's 'Tender Buttons' breaks literary rules with its cubist prose, causing terror, parody, and debate that reflects the avant-garde movement of the early 20th century.
How to Write
by Gertrude Stein
4.0(304)
Explore Gertrude Stein's thoughts on writing as she takes apart and reassembles the act itself, offering a playful, rhythmic, and unique guide to crafting prose that stands out.