Gertrude Stein - Two things are always the same the dance and war.

Two things are always the same the dance and war.

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Stein, Gertrude. Wars I Have Seen. Random House, 1945.

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About the Author

Gertrude Stein

Born: February 3, 1874
Died: July 27, 1946
Nationality: American
Profession: Writer, Poet, Novelist, Playwright, Art Collector

Biography

Gertrude Stein was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in the Allegheny West neighborhood and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and made France her home for the remainder of her life. She hosted a Paris salon, where the leading figures of modernism in literature and art, such as Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson and Henri Matisse, would meet.

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