–into 27, Rue de Fleurus, Paris
Born Feb. 3, 1874; died July 27, 1946.
Britannica –
“Avant–garde American writer, eccentric, and self–styled genius whose Paris home was a salon for the leading artists and writers of the period between World Wars I and II.
Stein spent her infancy in Vienna and in Passy, France, and her girlhood in Oakland, California. She entered the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women (renamed Radcliffe College in 1894), where she studied psychology with the philosopher William James, and received her degree in 1898. She studied at Johns Hopkins Medical School from 1897 to 1902 and then, with her older brother Leo, moved first to London and then to Paris, where she was able to live by private means. She lived with Leo, who became an accomplished art critic, until 1909; thereafter she lived with her lifelong companion Alice B. Toklas (1877–1967).”
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online (accessed January 7, 2009)
Stein, Jewish, b. February, 1874, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; d. July, 1946, Paris, France