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Books by Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein was an American writer born in 1874 who spent most of her adult life in Paris. Her salon at 27 rue de Fleurus became an important gathering point for modernist artists and writers, and she was an early champion of Picasso, Matisse, and the Cubist painters. Her experimental works include Tender Buttons and The Making of Americans, which remain difficult to read and fiercely admired. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, published in 1933, was her first commercial success. She died in Paris in 1946. Her partner Alice B. Toklas survived her by twenty-one years.