The Making of Americans

The Making of Americans

First edition title page
Author	Gertrude Stein
Language	English
Publication date	1925
Media type	Print

The Making of Americans: Being a History of a Family's Progress is a modernist novel by Gertrude Stein. The novel traces the genealogy, history, and psychological development of members of the fictional Hersland and Dehning families. Stein also includes frequent metafictional meditations on the process of writing the text that periodically overtake the main narrative.