Stein, Gertrude

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.”

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

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

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When Sarah Stein, Gertrude’s sister-in-law, moved to Paris, Spurling wrote, “she brought with her the gift of the New World to the Old: voracious, semistarved cultural appetites, freedom from an enfeebled and contaminated tradition, the native vigor of a rootless race of outsiders accustomed from earliest years to consult and act on their own powerful intuitive response.”

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

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