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Frank Gelett Burgess (January 30, 1866 –
September 18, 1951) was an
American artist, art critic, poet,
author and humorist. An
important figure in the...
- Leo, the
Royal Cadet. The
impish American writer and
Bohemian Club
member Gelett Burgess, who
coined the word blurb,
supplied this
description of the amorphous...
- "Purple Cow" is a
short nonsense poem by
American writer Gelett Burgess. It was
first published in 1895. I
never saw a
Purple Cow, I
never hope to see...
- 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...
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second edition. The word
blurb was
coined in 1906 by
American humorist Gelett Burgess (1866–1951). The
October 1906
first edition of his
short book Are...
- painter. Mary
Hunter Austin,
novelist Eric Berne,
psychiatrist and
author Gelett Burgess, humorist,
author Meg Cabot, author,
wrote The
Mediator series,...
- of Fairhaven, Aug. 1853. In
Gelett, C. W. (1917). A life on the ocean:
Autobiography of
Captain Charles Wetherby Gelett. Honolulu, Hawaii:
Hawaiian Gazette...
- part due to the
sedative effects. In
April 1906, the
American humorist Gelett Burgess published an
essay in The
Smart Set
called "The
Sulphitic Theory"...
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Timeline of Art History. New York: The
Metropolitan Museum of Art (2004)
Gelett Burgess, "The Wild Men of Paris: Matisse, Pic****o and Les Fauves", Architectural...
- 1950, were
created by the artist, art critic, poet,
author and
humorist Gelett Burgess. The
characters debuted, conceptually, in the
illustrations of Burgess'...
