THE WHITE CAT

Frank Gelett Burgess (1866—1951) was an artist, art critic, poet, author, humorist and 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 for the first time in an essay titled "The Wild Men of Paris". He was the author of the popular Goops books, and he coined the term blurb .
The White Cat is a novel written by the author and first published in 1907. The story develops themes as the dissociative identity or "multiple personality" theme it was far ahead of its time.