Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an
American novelist, poet, and playwright. Born in the
Allegheny West neighborhood of
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, and raised in
Oakland,
California, Stein moved to
Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. A literary innovator and a pioneer of
Modernist literature, Stein’s work broke with the narrative, linear, and temporal conventions of the 19th-century. She was also known as a collector of
Modernist art.