Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on February 3, 1874.
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Her body of work include Three Lives , Tender Buttons , The Making of Americans , and The Autobiography of Alice B.
Scott Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, and Guillaume Apollinaire.
Not only was she an innovator in literature and a supporter of modern poetry and art, she was the friend and mentor of those who visited her at her now-famous home: Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Jean Cocteau, Ernest Hemingway, F.
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At 27 rue de Fleurus, Gertrude Stein lived with Alice B.
Abandoning her studies, she moved to Paris with her brother Leo in 1903.
At Radcliffe College she studied under William James, who remained her lifelong friend, and then went to Johns Hopkins to study medicine.
Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on February 3, 1874