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Gertrude Stein

1874 - 1946

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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. Toklas, her life partner. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gertrude Stein is the 433rd most popular writer (down from 314th in 2019), the 534th most popular biography from United States (down from 282nd in 2019) and the 47th 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.

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Among writers, Gertrude Stein ranks 433 out of 7,302. Before her are Saint-John Perse, Jacques Prévert, William of Rubruck, Phillis Wheatley, Einhard, and Ágota Kristóf. After her are Sholem Aleichem, Joseph Brodsky, Sergei Yesenin, Sándor Márai, Gregory of Tours, and Georges Bataille.

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Among people born in 1874, Gertrude Stein ranks 20. Before her are Edward Thorndike, Carl Bosch, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Lou Henry Hoover, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and António Egas Moniz. After her are Ernest Shackleton, August Krogh, Nikolai Berdyaev, Alexander Kolchak, Talaat Pasha, and G. K. Chesterton. Among people deceased in 1946, Gertrude Stein ranks 22. Before her are John Logie Baird, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Manuel de Falla, Werner von Blomberg, and Fritz Sauckel. After her are Karl Haushofer, Draža Mihailović, Ferenc Szálasi, Paul Langevin, Gilbert N. Lewis, and James Jeans.

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Among people born in United States, Gertrude Stein ranks 534 out of 20,380. Before her are Jim Mattis (1950), David Morse (1953), Vincent du Vigneaud (1901), Richard Widmark (1914), Sean Penn (1960), and Stephen Hillenburg (1961). After her are Harriet Tubman (1820), Joe Frazier (1944), Willem Dafoe (1955), Jim Belushi (1954), Kim Basinger (1953), and Sarah Vaughan (1924).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Gertrude Stein ranks 47. Before her are Sylvia Plath (1932), Frank Herbert (1920), Susan Sontag (1933), Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. (1809), James Fenimore Cooper (1789), and Jack Kerouac (1922). After her are Raymond Chandler (1888), Henry James (1843), Philip Roth (1933), Dan Brown (1964), Harper Lee (1926), and Eugene O'Neill (1888).

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