Brain Byte

Gertrude Stein

  • Published24 Apr 2020
  • Author Calli McMurray
  • Source BrainFacts/SfN

Gertrude Stein was a famous writer during the first half of the twentieth century. Her career had an unexpected beginning in the world of neuroscience.

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Gertrude Stein. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/gertrude-stein

Stafford, J. (1935). Gertrude Stein Explained. The Science News-Letter, 27(725), 134. doi: 10.2307/3911491

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. (2020, January 30). Gertrude Stein. Retrieved from https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gertrude-Stein

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