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Gelett Burgess Quotes
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
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| Birth: | 30th January, 1866 |
| Death: | 18th September, 1951 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Artist, Author, Humorist, Poet |
About
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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