Stein, Gertrude

Cultural  

1. A twentieth-century American author who lived most of her life in France. She wrote her life story as The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (Toklas was her companion), and she is said to have introduced the phrase “lost generation” to describe the Americans who wandered about Europe after World War I. Her works also include poems and the story collection Three Lives; the most famous line from her poetry is “Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.”

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Ms. Carroll supplemented her screen work with frequent dinner theater appearances, and she won a Grammy Award in 1980 for the recording of her one-woman show “Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein, Gertrude Stein.”

From Washington Post

“Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein” opened off-Broadway in 1979 and received glowing reviews.

From Seattle Times

“Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein” opened Off Broadway in 1979 and received glowing reviews.

From New York Times

His main aesthetic guide in collecting was art critic Leo Stein, Gertrude's brother.

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