Gelett Burgess Books

Frank Gelett Burgess was an artist, art critic, poet, author, and humorist. A significant 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." Burgess also introduced modern French art to the United States in an essay titled "The Wild Men of Paris." He authored the popular Goops books and coined the term "blurb."