To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
Gelett Burgess Quotes
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
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| Birth: | 30th January, 1866 |
| Death: | 18th September, 1951 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Artist, Author, Humorist, Poet |
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Frank Gelett Burgess 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. He was the author of the popular Goops books, and he invented the blurb.
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