Gertrude Stein

(noun)

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) was an American writer, poet, and art collector who spent most of her life in France.

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  • The Lost Generation
  • Ernest Hemingway

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  • The Lost Generation

    • Hemingway credits the phrase to Gertrude Stein, who was then his mentor and patron.
    • In his book, A Moveable Feast, published after Hemingway and Stein were both dead and their long-running literary feud finished, Hemingway reveals the phrase was actually originated by the garage owner who serviced Stein's car.
    • When a young mechanic failed to repair the car to her satisfaction, the garage owner told Stein that while young men were easy to train, he considered those in their mid-twenties to thirties, the men who had been through World War I, to be a lost generation, or "une génération perdue."
    • Telling Hemingway the story, Stein added, "That is what you are.
    • Gertrude Stein and Ernest Hemingway's young son, Jack, in Paris, 1924.
  • Literature and the Depression

    • In 1933, Gertrude Stein published the memoirs of her Paris years, entitled The Autobiography of Alice B.
    • The advent of this book elevated Stein from the relative obscurity of a cult literary figure into the light of mainstream attention.
  • Culture in the Thirties

    • Among American authors who in the 1930s wrote their usually more controversial or experimental and less realistic works were Gertrude Stein, who in 1933 published the memoir of her Paris years entitled The Autobiography of Alice B.
  • The Roaring Twenties

    • Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein.
  • Conclusion: Populism Resurgent

    • Two third party candidates have obtained enough ballot access to mathematically have a chance of winning the presidency and have been featured in major national polls: the Libertarian Party nominee, former Governor of New Mexico Gary Johnson, and the Green Party presumptive nominee Jill Stein.
  • The 2012 Presidential Election

    • The two other presidential candidates included Green Party nominee Jill Stein and Libertarian Party nominee, New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson.
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