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•  Gertrude Stein was admitted as a special student to the Harvard Annex in 1893 (it was renamed Vassar College the next year), while her brother Leo attended Harvard. She studied psychology with William James, and graduated magna cum laude in 1898.

• Gertrude Stein studied medicine at Johns Hopkins for four years, leaving with no degree after having difficulty with her last year of courses.

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• Three Lives (1909)•  Tender Buttons (1914)•  Geography and Plays (1922) • The Making of Americans (written 

1906-1908, published 1925) • Four Saints in Three Acts (libretto, 

1929; music by Virgil Thomson, 1934) 

• How to Write (1931) • The Autobiography of Alice B.

Toklas (1933)•  Lectures in America (1935) • The Geographical History of

America: or, The Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind (1936) 

• Everybody's Autobiography (1937)• Picasso (1938) • Paris France (1940)

• Ida; a novel (1941) 

• Wars I Have Seen (1945) 

• Reflections on the Atom Bomb (1946) 

• Brewsie and Willie (1946) 

• The Mother of Us All (libretto, published 1949; music by Virgil Thompson 1947)

•  Last Operas and Plays (1949) 

• The Things as They Are (written as Q.E.D. in 1903, published 1950) Patriarchal Poetry (1953) Alphabets and Birthdays (1957)

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• Stein  had a medal of recognition (Médaille de la Réconnaissance Francoise, 1922) by the French government for her service.

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• http://www.ellensplace.net/gstein3.html

• http://www.notablebiographies.com/Sc-St/Stein-Gertrude.html

• http://womenshistory.about.com/od/gertrudestein/a/gertrude_stein.htm

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