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The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.
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Birth: | 3rd February, 1874 |
Death: | 27th July, 1946 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Novelist, Poet, Writer |
Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an American novelist, poet, writer, and art collector. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures in modernism in literature and art would meet, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Henri Matisse. She wrote several books include: The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Tender Buttons, Three Lives, The Making of Americans(novel), Paris France, The World is Round, How to Write, Ida: A Novel, Wars I Have seen, Portraits and prayers, Blood on the dining-room floor(novel), Lifting Belly(poem), and Mrs. Reynolds.
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