Gelett Burgess
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."
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