Gertrude Stein constituted a distinguished, influential figure of the
arts world of the 20th century. Her house in 27 rue de Fleurus, in
Paris, which she shared with her lifelong companion Alice B. Toklas,
became a meeting point for the “new moderns” movement of the time i.e.
writers, poets and artists like Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Ezra Pound,
Guillaume Apollinaire, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. Stein was an
unconventional, dynamic literary icon and a renowned advocate of the
avant-garde; among her most inspiring works are "The Making of
Americans", "How to Write" and "Stanzas in Meditation and Other Poems".
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