Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein was born in 1874 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, into a prosperous Jewish family, and grew up between Vienna, Paris and Oakland. She studied psychology under William James at Radcliffe, then medicine at Johns Hopkins without finishing, and in 1903 joined her brother Leo in Paris. Their apartment on the rue de Fleurus, which she kept until 1938, became a meeting place for the painters of Paris and for American writers, around modern paintings bought very early. She met Alice Toklas in 1907, who shared her life, spent the Occupation in the Ain and died in Neuilly in 1946.

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• NarrativeThe Autobiography of Alice B. ToklasGertrude Stein · 1933Literature