Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) was an American writer, poet, and art collector whose experimental prose and Paris salon shaped modernist literature and art.

Modernism: A broad movement that broke with inherited forms in literature and art to represent modern experience. Stein’s fractured syntax and repetition became distinctive experiments within this movement.
Three Lives: Gertrude Stein’s 1909 book of three stories about working-class women in a fictional American town. Its controlled repetitions and distinct voices mark an early, sustained experiment in prose.
Ernest Hemingway: An American novelist and short-story writer whose spare prose helped define twentieth-century literature. He met Stein in Paris, received her advice, and later portrayed their expatriate circle.
Lost Generation: A group of writers associated with post–World War I disillusionment, especially expatriates in Paris. Stein’s phrase for Hemingway’s generation helped give this literary group its lasting name.
27 rue de Fleurus: The Paris address where Gertrude Stein and her family lived and held gatherings for artists and writers. The apartment’s collection and Saturday evenings made Stein’s salon a visible hub of modernism.
Cubism: An art movement that represented subjects through fragmented forms and multiple viewpoints. Stein’s prose and collecting developed alongside the Cubist experiments of artists in her circle.
Everybody’s Autobiography: Gertrude Stein’s 1937 memoir about her public life, writing, and relationships. It extends her autobiographical writing after the unexpected success of her earlier memoir.
Sherwood Anderson: An American writer whose book Winesburg, Ohio influenced later modernist fiction. Stein’s encouragement helped him pursue writing, and he supported publication of her work.
Language poetry: A late twentieth-century poetry movement that foregrounds language’s material and social structures. Language poets later treated Stein’s attention to words and syntax as a major precedent.
Stein Salon: The gatherings hosted by Gertrude Stein and her family in their Paris home for artists and writers. The salon brought visitors into contact with the art and conversation that surrounded Stein.

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