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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.
Gertrude Stein was born on February 3, 1874, in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, the youngest of five childrenâthree boys and two girlsâof Daniel, a businessman, and Amelia (Keyser) Stein. Both parents were of German Jewish descent. Her father had been born in Bavaria and immigrated to the United States in 1841.