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Frank Gelett Burgess (January 30, 1866 – September 18, 1951) was an American artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. He was 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.
The May 1895 issue of The Lark in which Burgess's "Purple Cow" first appeared. The poem was first published in the first issue of Burgess's magazine The Lark in May 1895 and became his most widely known work. [2] It originally had the longer title "The Purple Cow's projected feast/Reflections on a Mythic Beast/Who's Quite Remarkable, at Least". [3]
The Gelett Burgess Children's Book Award is an annual award presented by the Gelett Burgess Center for Creative Expression. Named for Gelett Burgess, an artist and writer famous for his humorous Goops series (1900-1950), this award recognizes outstanding books that inspire imagination and creativity, and helps support childhood literacy and lifelong reading.
Gelett Burgess' Goops (April 6, 1924) The Goops books, originally published between 1900 and 1950, were created by the artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist Gelett Burgess. The characters debuted, conceptually, in the illustrations [1] [2] of Burgess' publication The Lark, in the late 19th century.
Two O'Clock Courage is a 1945 American film noir directed by Anthony Mann and written by Robert E. Kent, based on a novel by Gelett Burgess. The drama features Tom Conway and Ann Rutherford. [1] It is a remake of Two in the Dark (1936).
The Bohemian Club's mascot is an owl, here cast in masonry, and perched over the main club entrance at 20601 Bohemian Ave, Monte Rio, CA 95462.. The following list of Bohemian Club members includes both past and current members of note.
Other known contributors included Burgess’ artist friends Ernest Peixotto, Porter Garnett, and Bruce Porter, [2] all of whom were familiar with the popular print culture of their day, as well as the experimental trends being spearheaded by UK- and US-based little magazines. [3] Le Petit Journal des Refusées was published on July 1, 1896.
The impish American writer and Bohemian Club member Gelett Burgess, who coined the word blurb, supplied this description of the amorphous place called Bohemia: Gelett Burgess drew this fanciful "Map of Bohemia" for The Lark, March 1, 1896 (see also The Winter's Tale § The seacoast of Bohemia)