Gertrude Stein: Quick Facts

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Born	February 3, 1874 • Pittsburgh • Pennsylvania
Died	July 27, 1946 (aged 72) • Neuilly-sur-Seine • France
Notable Works	“Brewsie and Willie” • “Composition as Explanation” • “Four Saints in Three Acts” • “Four Saints in Three Acts” • “Q.E.D.” • “Tender Buttons” • “The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas” • “The Making of Americans” • “The Mother of Us All” • “Three Lives”
Movement / Style	Modernism

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Stein, Gertrude

Gertrude Stein (left) and Alice B. Toklas, 1934.

Gertrude Stein in Paris with her godchild, Ernest Hemingway's son John, known as “Bumby,” c. 1924.

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June Jordan.

June Jordan

American author

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German author

James Baldwin stands against a plain background in a dress shirt and tie, arms crossed, holding a cigarette, looking directly at the camera.

James Baldwin

American author

Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser

American author

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

American author

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

W.H. Auden

W. H. Auden

British poet

Paul Auster

Paul Auster

American author

Ha Jin

Ha Jin

Chinese American writer

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Jeannette Leonard Gilder

American editor and writer

William Carlos Williams, wearing glasses and a bow tie, sits indoors holding a book with bookshelves and cabinets in the background, circa 1955.

William Carlos Williams

American poet

Mary Austin.

Mary Austin

American writer

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Marya Mannes

American author and critic

Claude McKay

Claude McKay

American writer

William Saroyan.

William Saroyan

American author

Henry James

Henry James

American writer

Graham Greene, 1982

Graham Greene

British author

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

German dramatist

Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Austrian author

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Sir Stephen Spender

English poet

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

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Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

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Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) portrait by Carl Van Vecht April 3, 1938. Writer, folklorist and anthropologist celebrated African American culture of the rural South.

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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

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