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Gertrude Stein is remembered as a novelist, playwright, poet, and, art collector \u2013\u2013 and the hostess of a Paris salon that gathered the cream of interwar modernism, including Picasso, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Matisse. A semi-open lesbian, her books include Q.E.D., one of the earliest English-language lesbian novels, and Tender Buttons, a book of poems full of allusion to lesbian sexuality. But in the last years of her life, as a Jew living in Nazi-occupied France, Stein sustained her lifestyle as an art collector and ensured her safety through the protection of powerful Vichy government officials \u2013 part of a pattern of involvement in far-right, antisemitic, and fascist politics.\xa0\n----more----\nSOURCES:\n\nJohnston, Georgia. The Formation of 20th-Century Queer Autobiography: Reading Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf, Hilda Doolittle, and Gertrude Stein. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007.\nMalcolm, Janet. \u201cGertrude Stein\u2019s War.\u201d The New Yorker. June 2, 2003. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/06/02/gertrude-steins-war.\nPavloska, Susanna. Modern Primitives: Race and Language in Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and Zora Neale Hurston. New York: Routledge, 1999.\nStein, Gertrude. Tender Buttons. Reissue edition. Mineola, N.Y: Dover Publications, 1997.\n\u2014\u2014\u2014. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas. Reissue edition. New York: Vintage, 1990.\nWineapple, Brenda. Sister Brother: Gertrude and Leo Stein. Lincoln: Combined Academic Publishing, 2008.\n\xa0\n\nOur intro music is\xa0Arpeggia Colorix\xa0by Yann Terrien, downloaded from WFMU's Free Music Archive and distributed under a Creative Commons\xa0Attribution-ShareAlike License. Our outro music is by DJ\xa0Michaeloswell Graphicsdesigner.