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1874 – 1946Gertrude Stein (1874-1946)Died 27 July 1946, aged 72Stein was an American writer and art collector whose Paris salon brought together Picasso, Hemingway, and other leading modernists. Her experimental prose and patronage helped define modernist literature and art in the early twentieth century. She died in France following surgery for stomach cancer.