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Jan 30, 1866 Boston, Massachusetts, United States Died on 18 Sep 1951 (aged 85)
artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist
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About Gelett Burgess
- Frank Gelett Burgess (January 30, 1866 – September 18, 1951) was an 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, 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 author of the popular Goops books, and he coined the term blurb.
