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A US-born author, poet, playwright and art collector and an icon of modernism in literature and art. She moved to Paris at the age of 29, where she established a literary and artistic salon in her home, whose guests included Ernest Hemmingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Ezra Pound, and Sherwood Anderson. Stein coined the term the ‘Lost Generation’ to describe a group of writers who were members of the post-World War I generation. She published numerous books dealing with homosexual relationships and was a trailblazer in asserting that gender is a social construct.
