“It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.”
About Gertrude Stein
3 February 1874–27 July 1946
Gertrude Stein was born on 3 February 1874 in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, then a separate city and now part of Pittsburgh, and died on 27 July 1946 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris. Few modern writers have made language itself so central to the drama of literature. Stein was a novelist, poet, playwright, critic…