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  2. May 3, 2024 · Ambrose Bierce (born June 24, 1842, Meigs county, Ohio, U.S.—died January 1914?, Mexico?) was an American newspaperman, wit, satirist, and author of sardonic short stories based on themes of death and horror. His life ended in an unsolved mystery. A Civil War soldier turned literary arbiter.

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    • In recent decades Ambrose Bierce has gained wider respect as a fabulist and for his poetry.
    • In 1913, Ambrose Bierce told reporters that he was travelling to Mexico to gain first-hand experience of the Mexican Revolution.
    • Ambrose Bierce was of entirely English ancestry: all of his forebears came to North America between 1620 and 1640 as part of the Great Puritan Migration.
    • Ambrose Bierce often wrote critically of both "Puritan values" and people who "made a fuss" about genealogy.
  3. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 [2] – c. 1914 [3]) was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and American Civil War veteran. His book The Devil's Dictionary was named one of "The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature" by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. [4]

  4. Ambrose Bierce's literary reputation is based primarily on his short stories about the Civil War and the supernaturala body of work that makes up a relatively small part of his total output. Often compared to the tales of Edgar Allan Poe, these stories share an attraction to death in its more…

  5. Died 1913 or 1914. Place of death unknown. Civil War veteran who authored. several short stories about the Civil War. A mbrose Bierce was one of America's best-known writers of the nineteenth century. As a Union soldier during the Civil War, Bierce witnessed the violence and horror of war firsthand.

  6. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – 1913) was an American editorialist, journalist, short-story writer, and satirist, today best known for his Devil's Dictionary, which lampooned, among other things, religion and politics.

  7. Dec 20, 2013 · One hundred years ago, the iconoclastic columnist, satirist, short-story writer and selflabeled Curmudgeon Philosopher abruptly abandoned his fame at the age of 71 and headed for Mexico, supposedly to join the rebel army of Pancho Villa in the revolution then raging. It is widely believed he had a death wish.

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