Anna Mae Markowitz, age 15, of Asbury Park, N.J., for her question:

WHAT DID GERTRUDE STEIN WRITE?

Almost everybody knows writer Gertrude Stein's most famous line: "A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose." She believed that such repetition of words helped communicate the feelings they expressed.

Pennsylvania born Stein moved to Paris in 1903 when she was 29. Earlier, she had graduated from Radcliffe College where she studied under philosopher William James.

In Paris, her apartment became the gathering place for writers and artists. She influenced young writers such as Ernest Hemingway and Sherwood Anderson and encouraged such painters as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse.

Stein's best known book is called "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas." Written in 1933, the writer tells about herself from the viewpoint of her friend and secretary. She died in 1946.