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Within, within the cut and slender joint alone, with sudden equals and no more than three, two in the centre make two one side.
—Tender Buttons
Gertrude
Stein
Gertrude Stein
 
1874–1946, American author and patron of the arts, b. Allegheny (now part of Pittsburgh), Pa. A celebrated personality, she encouraged, aided, and influenced—through her patronage as well as through her writing—many literary and artistic figures. After attending (1893–97) Radcliffe, where she was a student of William James, she began premedical work at Johns Hopkins. In 1902, relinquishing her studies, she went abroad and from 1903 until her death lived chiefly in Paris. For many years her secretary and lover was Alice B. Toklas.—continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2002 Columbia University Press.
 
Pronunciation:  stn from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
 
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POETRY
 
Tender Buttons. 1914.
A translation of the art of the cubists into prose poems.
 
 
FICTION
 
Three Lives. 1909.
The publication of this first of Stein’s works established her position as a master of the English language and expositor of the twentieth-century woman.
 
 
QUOTATIONS
 
Stein, Gertrude, 55481 to 55662
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