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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.
Paris was the place, Stein is quoted in Gilbert A. Harrison's Gertrude Stein's America, that suited us who were to create the twentieth century art and literature. As soon as she arrived, Stein submerged herself in the bohemian community of the avant garde, described by her brother Leo as an atmosphere of propaganda.