My Maiden Effort: Being the Personal Confessions of Well-Known American Authors As to Their Literary Beginnings: George Ade, James Lane Allen, Mary

by Gelett Burgess

Brief descriptions by members of the Authors' League of America of their first efforts to write and publish fiction.

Textbook Binding

First published January 1, 1921

About the author

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, 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 author of the popular Goops books, and he coined the term "blurb."