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Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania--a fact she took perverse pleasure in--on February 3, , into a family as vividly unconventional as one might expect of such a free spirit.

Her grandparents were German-Jewish immigrants who had prospered in the United States; her parents, beguiled by art, languages, and educational theory, whisked the young Gertrude off to Europe (first to Vienna, then to Paris) as soon as it was safe for an infant to travel.

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As Stein later wrote: 'So I was five years old when we came back to America having known Austrian German and French French, and now American English, a nice world if there is enough of it, and more or less there always is.' The family's return to the United States was soon marked by yet another exotic migration: they crossed the country by train to settle in Oakland, California.

Although she received a spotty education as a child, Gertrude read voraciously. In the