WRITER

Gertrude Stein

1874 - 1946

Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), 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. In 1933, Stein published a quasi-memoir of her Paris years, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, written in the voice of Alice B. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gertrude Stein has received more than 4,870,412 page views. Her biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 55 in 2019). Gertrude Stein is the 314th most popular writer (up from 408th in 2019), the 282nd most popular biography from United States (up from 417th in 2019) and the 24th most popular American Writer.

Gertrude Stein is most famous for her book "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas." The book is about Stein's life with her partner, Alice B. Toklas.

Memorability Metrics

4.9M
Page Views (PV)
69.93
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
60
Languages Editions (L)
7.21
Effective Languages (L*)
3.86
Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Geography and plays

Drama

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The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas

1933

Gertrude Stein's America

1932

Narration

1935

Three lives

Fiction

Three Ordinary Lives, Three Extraordinary Pieces of Writing “You look ridiculous if you dance / You look ridiculous if you don't dance / So you might as well / dance.” - Gertrude Stein, Three Lives In Three Lives, Gertrude Stein tells the story of three common American women. The first one is Anna Federner, a German immigrant with green parrot that colors her apparently dull serving life. Melanctha, a black woman searching for a meaning in her mixed life, is the protagonist of the second part of the book while Lena, a passive and misunderstood of German descent, is the unsung hero of the third part. This Xist Classics edition has been professionally formatted for e-readers with a linked table of contents. This eBook also contains a bonus book club leadership guide and discussion questions. We hope you’ll share this book with your friends, neighbors and colleagues and can’t wait to hear what you have to say about it. Xist Publishing is a digital-first publisher. Xist Publishing creates books for the touchscreen generation and is dedicated to helping everyone develop a lifetime love of reading, no matter what form it takes

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Tender Buttons

Poetry

Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons: Objects, Food, Rooms from 1914 is a poetic exploration of words - clustered, juxtaposed, redefined and played off one another - to subterfuge their common meanings, which Stein felt had become watered down, and to re-infuse them with expressive force.

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