Gertrude Stein (redirected from Gertrude Stien)

Stein, Gertrude 

Born Feb. 3, 1874, in Allegheny, Pa.; died July 27,1946, in Neuilly-sur-Seine. American writer.

Stein attended Radcliffe College and studied psychology under William James. She went to live in Europe in 1902. Her work is noted for bold experiments with literary forms. Her prose (the novella Three Lives, 1908; the novel The Making of Americans, 1906–08, published 1925) and verse are experimental in nature. Hemingway adopted certain elements of her style. Stein coined the expression “the lost generation.”

WORKS

Selected Writings. New York, 1962.

REFERENCES

Kashkin, I. E. Kheminguei. Moscow, 1966.
Stewart, A. G. Stein and the Present. Cambridge, Mass., 1967.
Mellow, J. R. Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein and Company. New York-Washington, D.C. [1974].