Gelett Burgess | |
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 Circa 1910 | |
| Born | Frank Gelett Burgess January 30, 1866 Boston, Massachusetts, US |
| Died | September 18, 1951 (aged 85) Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, US |
| Occupation | Novelist, Engineer |
| Literary movement | West Coast Response to the European Decadent movement |
| Notable works | The Purple Cow, The Wild Men of Paris |
Frank Gelett Burgess (January 30, 1866 – September 18, 1951) was an American artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. An important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s, particularly through his iconoclastic little magazine, The Lark, and association with The Crowd literary group. He is best known as a writer of nonsense verse, such as "The Purple Cow," and for introducing French modern art to the United States in an essay titled "The Wild Men of Paris." He was the illustrator of the Goops murals, in Coppa's restaurant, in the Montgomery Block and author of the popular Goops books. Burgess coined the term "blurb."