Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, in 1874. She attended Radcliffe College and the medical school of Johns Hopkins University.

Stein's work includes Three Lives (1909), Tender Buttons (1914), The Making of Americans (1925), Four Saints in Three Acts (1934), Fernhurst, Paris France (1940). Fernhurst was a short novel about a fictional love triangle between real-life lesbian partners Helen Carey Thomas and Mary Gwinn and a fictional male suitor.

Gertrude also wrote The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (1933), which was actually her own autobiography. Alice (1877-1967) was Gertrude's life partner. The two wanted to marry. However, Gertrude did not want a legal and socially recognized marriage. She wanted a sort of heterosexual marriage in which she played the "male" role. Gertrude didn't even cross dress or pass as a man or anything either.

Gertrude died in 1946.