''Everybody's Autobiography'' is a book by

Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the Allegheny West neighborhood and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris ...

, published in 1937. It is a continuation of her own memoirs, picking up where '' The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas'', published in 1933, left off. Both were written in a less experimental, more approachable style than most of her other work. In chapter four of this book is found the famous quote "There is no there there" which refers to her disappeared childhood home in

Oakland, California Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast of the United States, West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third ...

.Stein, Gertrude. ''Everybody's Autobiography''. New York: Cooper Square, 1971, p. 289. .

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