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Gertrude Stein. Gertrude Stein, the American modernist writer, was an international celebrity, an artistic iconoclast, and a self-proclaimed genius. Her experiments in poetry and prose still puzzle structuralist, deconstructionist, and feminist critics.
The family returned to America in 1880 and Gertrude Stein grew up in Oakland and San Francisco, California. In 1888 Gertrude Stein's mother died after a long battle with cancer, and in 1891 her father died suddenly. Her oldest brother, Michael, became guardian of the younger siblings. In 1892 Gertrude Stein and her sister moved to Baltimore to live with relatives.