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Burgess, Frank Gelett (1866–1951)| US humorous writer. He published collections of poems, stories, and sketches, including Goops and How to be Them (1900); Are You a Bromide? 1897, a satire on platitudes; and Burgess Unabridged (1914), which introduced the word ‘blurb’. |
| His well-known quatrain about the Purple Cow appeared in the first issue of the Lark magazine (1895–97), which he edited. |
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