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Gertrude Stein
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American novelist and poet. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Stein was raised in an upper-middle-class Jewish family alongside four siblings. Afte...view moreGertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American novelist and poet. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, Stein was raised in an upper-middle-class Jewish family alongside four siblings. After a brief move to Vienna and Paris, the Steins settled in Oakland, California in 1878, where Stein would spend her formative years. In 1892, following the loss of her mother and father, Stein moved with her sister to live with family in Baltimore, where she was exposed to salon culture. From 1893 to 1897 she attended Radcliffe College, studying psychology under William James. Conducting experiments on the phenomenon of normal motor automatism, Stein produced early examples of steam of consciousness or automatic writing, a hallmark of the Modernist style later practiced by Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, and William Faulkner. In 1897, she enrolled at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine on the recommendation of James, but ultimately left before completing her degree. She moved to Paris with her brother Leo, an artist, in 1903. In the French capital, the Steins gained a reputation as art collectors, purchasing works by Picasso, Matisse, Gauguin, Cézanne, and Renoir. At 27 rue de Fleurus, Stein hosted an influential salon for such artists and intellectuals as Ernest Hemingway, Ezra Pound, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, who recognized her as a leading Modernist and central figure of the so-called Lost Generation. Her influential works include Three Lives (1909), Tender Buttons (1912), and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933), all of which exemplify her control over vastly different styles of poetry and prose. Capable of producing experimental, hermetic works that draw attention to the constructed nature of language, Stein also excelled with straightforward narratives, essays, and biographical descriptions. From 1907 until her death, Stein and her life partner Alice B. Toklas gained a reputation as leaders in the international avant-garde, and remain essential to our understanding of the development of twentieth century art and culture.view less
Books by Gertrude Stein
The World Is Round Geography and Plays Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tender Buttons: Objects Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Three LivesStories of The Good Anna, Melanctha and The Gentle Lena Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThree Lives Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Making Of Americans: Being A History Of A Family's Progress Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Tender Buttons Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Great American Poets: New Hampshire, Tender Buttons, Select Poems, and Selected Poems Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Blood on the Dining-Room Floor Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThree Lives Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Audiobooks by Gertrude Stein
Women Who Wrote: Stories and Poems from Audacious Literary Mavens Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe World Is Round Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Paris France Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Tender Buttons Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Three Lives Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Top 10 Short Stories - 20th Century Women: The top ten short stories of the 20th Century written by female authors. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Top 10 Short Stories – The 1910’s – The Women: The top ten Short Stories of the 1910's written by female authors Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsModernist Short Stories: The literary movement influenced by sources such as Nietzsche, Darwin & Einstein Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tender Buttons Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Geography and Plays Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThree Lives (Unabridged) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings