Gertrude Stein (1874 – 1946) was an American writer of novels, poetry and plays that eschewed the narrative, linear, and temporal conventions of 19th-century literature, and a fervent collector of Modernist art. Stein's writing can be placed in three categories: "hermetic" works best illustrated by The Making of Americans. Tender Buttons is the best known of Gertrude Stein's "hermetic" works. It is a small book separated into three sections—Food, Objects and Rooms each containing prose under subtitles. In this book: Tender Buttons Geography and Plays Three Lives Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein
