Gertrude Stein

Details

Instance of

human

Born

3 February 1874

Died

27 July 1946

Part of

Leo and Gertrude Stein

Place of birth

Allegheny

Place of death

Neuilly-sur-Seine

Sex or gender

female

Given name

Gertrude

Family name

Stein

Sibling

Leo Stein, Michael Stein

Movement

modernist literature, modernism

Field of work

poetry

Occupation

writer, poet, art collector, salonnière, autobiographer, librettist, playwright, author, collector

Citizenship

United States

archives at

Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Maryland Libraries, Harry Ransom Center

artist files at

Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library

cause of death

stomach cancer

described by source

Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), UbuWeb, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), American Women Writers, Metzler Autorinnen Lexikon (1 ed.), Women of Achievement in Maryland history, American Women Writers, 1900-1945 : A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook

documentation files at

SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts

educated at

Radcliffe College, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Oakland High School

has works in the collection

Philadelphia Museum of Art, CODA Museum

languages spoken, written or signed

English

manner of death

natural causes

name in native language

Gertrude Stein

notable work

Three Lives, Tender Buttons, The Making of Americans, Four Saints in Three Acts, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Everybody's Autobiography, Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights

owner of

Gertrude Stein

participant in

documenta 8

partner in business or sport

Leo Stein

place of burial

Père Lachaise Cemetery, Grave of Gertrude Stein

public domain date

2017

sexual orientation

lesbianism

significant person

Bernard Faÿ, Philippe Pétain

topic's main category

Category:Gertrude Stein

unmarried partner

Alice Babette Toklas

writing language

English

Connected on Wikidata

Authority files