Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) was an American modernist writer and art collector born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. She studied psychology under William James at Radcliffe College and then medicine at Johns Hopkins University, leaving without a degree, and settled in Paris in 1903. There she and her partner, Alice B. Toklas, kept a salon frequented by Picasso, Matisse, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald. Her books include Three Lives (1909), Tender Buttons (1914), and The Making of Americans (1925). The phrase "the Lost Generation" is attributed to her.
