Gertrude Stein
National Women's History Month Honoree
(1874-1946) ~ Writer
Stein's first book was Three Lives (1909) about three working class women. In 1914, she wrote Tender Buttons, which was influenced by cubism. Stein wrote an opera, Four Saints in Three Acts, in 1934; Virgil Thompson wrote the music for it. Stein wrote about the soldiers during the German occupation of France in Brewsie and Willie in 1946. Stein remained in France during WWII and wrote a book of her experiences, Wars I have Seen.