On July 27, 1946, Gertrude Stein passed away in her Paris home at the age of 72. Gertrude was a celebrated author, poet, playwright, essayist and art collector. She is best known for her modernist innovations and her literary works, which, through their unconventionality, rejected not only the accepted style of fiction writing of the day but also the moral conventions of the period. Gertrude was part of the avant-garde movement of the early 20th century, an active patron of the arts who launched several literary and artistic journal publications and was a major contributor to the development of modernism. Gertrude was born on February 3, 1874, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to German Jewish immigrants. She studied at Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts and later moved to Paris in 1903 with her brother Leo. In Paris, they became an integral part of the expatriate and artistic communities, living with each other until Gertrude's death in 1946. Gertrude Stein will be remembered for her iconic works such as The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, Three Lives, Tender Buttons and perhaps the most famous, The Making of Americans. She is remembered not only for her literary contributions but for influencing the development of the avant-garde arts.