gertrude stein

     

She & Alice B. Toklas are buried next to each other at Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris

Trivia about gertrude stein

  • Ogden Nash rhymed, "I'm fond of women, also wine, but not the song of" this Toklas pal
  • "What is the answer?" (Alice B. Toklas was silent.) "In that case, what is the question?"
  • Despite its title, "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas" is a book by & about this woman
  • False advertising alert! In 1933 she penned "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas"
  • Picasso's patrons included this expatriate American writer & her brother Leo
  • The most famous line from this author's "Sacred Emily" is "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose"
  • By 1903 this American had settled in France where she was joined by Alice B. Toklas
  • Before moving to Paris & meeting Alice, she studied psychology at Radcliffe under William James
  • "America is not old enough yet to get young again", remarked this expatriate who lived in Paris
  • In 1939 she published "The World Is Round" about a child named Rose... is a rose... is a rose...
  • In the 1920s, her home at 27 Rue de Fleurus in Paris was a gathering place for other writers & artists
  • She wrote the libretto for "The Mother of Us All"; maybe that's why it features a character named "Gertrude S."
  • She told Ernest Hemingway, "You are all a lost generation"
  • In 1926 she told Ernest Hemingway, "You are all a lost generation"
  • In 1936's "An American And France", she wrote, "America is my country and Paris is my hometown"
  • Sherwood Anderson & Ernest Hemingway were among the expatriate writers who hung out at her Paris salon
  • It was of Oakland, California, her girlhood home, that she wrote, "There is no there there"