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Gertrude SteinWriterBorn: 3 February 1874 Died: 27 July 1946 Birthplace: Allegheny, Pennsylvania Best known as: Ex-patriate author of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Gertrude Stein travelled the the U.S. and Europe as a child, and studied under philosopher William James at Radcliffe College. She moved to France in 1904 and found herself in the center of a crowd of artists that included Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway and Thornton Wilder. Although Stein had been writing plays, prose and poetry for years, she was unknown as a writer until the 1933 publication of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, named after her companion of many years. Extra credit: Stein was known for using repetition in her writing; her often-quoted line "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" is from Sacred Emily (1913). Copyright © 1998-2006 by Who2?, LLC. All rights reserved. More on Gertrude Stein from Fact Monster:
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