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Gertrude Stein was born in Pittsburgh, USA in 1874, 150 years ago this year. This volume includes extracts from her writings at significant points in her career. Our publisher's choice provides a concise introduction to one of the world's most original literary minds. Gertrude Stein was a masculine, openly lesbian woman who lived her whole life on her own terms; good-natured, idiosyncratic, brilliant. Her influence on 20th-century modernism is almost impossible to over-estimate. 150 years of Gertrude Stein is No 4 in the Publisher's Choice series, a collection of slim volumes selected by our publisher at the Cambridge Queer Press.…mehr

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Gertrude Stein was born in Pittsburgh, USA in 1874, 150 years ago this year. This volume includes extracts from her writings at significant points in her career. Our publisher's choice provides a concise introduction to one of the world's most original literary minds. Gertrude Stein was a masculine, openly lesbian woman who lived her whole life on her own terms; good-natured, idiosyncratic, brilliant. Her influence on 20th-century modernism is almost impossible to over-estimate. 150 years of Gertrude Stein is No 4 in the Publisher's Choice series, a collection of slim volumes selected by our publisher at the Cambridge Queer Press.
Autorenporträt
Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) was an American writer, poet and playwright. She moved to France in 1903, where she lived with her partner Alice B. Toklas and set up a famous literary salon frequented by luminaries including Matisse, Picasso, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hemingway. She is best known today for her memoir, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, and for her avant-garde novels Q.E.D., Fernhurst, Three Lives and Tender Buttons.