# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gelett-burgess
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:55:12.208Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gelett-burgess"
name: "Gelett Burgess"
slug: "gelett-burgess"
description: "Frank Gelett Burgess 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. He is best known as a writer of nonsense verse, such as \"The Purple Cow\", and for introducing French modern art to the United States in an essay titled \"The Wild Men of Paris.\" He was the illustrator of the Goops murals, in Coppa's restaurant, in the Montgomery Block and author of the popular Goops books. Burgess coined the term \"blurb.\""
tagline: "American artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist (1866-1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gelett_Burgess.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1866-01-30"
deathDate: "1951-09-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.09
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.754645333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelett_Burgess"
    title: "Gelett Burgess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AC%D8%B3"
    title: "جيليت بيرجس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%82%D8%B1%D8%B2"
    title: "قالت برقرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelett_Burgess"
    title: "Gelett Burgess"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D9%84%D8%AA_%D8%A8%D8%B1%DA%AF%D8%B3"
    title: "گلت برگس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gelett_Burgess"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15998059"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump