Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein was born in 1874 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, and grew up in Oakland, California, and Vienna. She studied psychology under William James at Radcliffe College and attended Johns Hopkins Medical School before abandoning medicine to move to Paris in 1903 with her brother Leo. At 27 rue de Fleurus, she established the legendary salon where she collected modern art and held court over the most important artists and writers of the century, from Picasso and Matisse to Hemingway and Fitzgerald. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.