''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 Allegheny, Pennsylvania (now part of Pittsburgh), and raised in Oakland, California, Stein moved to Paris in 1903, and ...

, published in 1937. It is a continuation of her own

memoirs A memoir (; , ) is any nonfiction narrative writing based on the author's personal memories. The assertions made in the work are thus understood to be factual. While memoir has historically been defined as a subcategory of biography or autobio ...

, 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 a city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. It is the county seat and most populous city in Alameda County, California, Alameda County, with a population of 440,646 in 2020. A major We ...

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

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