Ambrose Bierce information

Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Bierce
	Bierce around 1866
Born	Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce; June 24, 1842; Meigs County, Ohio, U.S.
Disappeared	c. 1914 (aged 71–72)
Occupation	Soldier; journalist; writer;
Genres	Satire; journalism; short story; horror fiction; war fiction; fantasy; science fiction; western; memoir; humor; literary criticism; poetry;
Literary movement	American Realism
Notable works	"Chickamauga"; "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"; "The Death of Halpin Frayser"; "The Moonlit Road"; The Devil's Dictionary; Tales of Soldiers and Civilians;
Spouse	Mary Ellen "Mollie" Day (m. 1871; div. 1904)
Children	3
Signature
Military career
Allegiance	United States
Service/branch	Union Army
Years of service	1861–1866
Rank	First lieutenant
Unit	9th Indiana Infantry Regiment
Battles/wars	American Civil War Battle of Philippi; Battle of Laurel Mountain; Battle of Corrick's Ford; Battle of Cheat Mountain; Battle of Greenbrier River; Battle of Camp Allegheny; Battle of Shiloh; Siege of Corinth; Battle of Perryville; Battle of Stones River; Battle of Chickamauga; Chattanooga Campaign; Battle of Lookout Mountain; Battle of Missionary Ridge; Battle of Resaca; Battle of Kennesaw Mountain; Atlanta Campaign; Battle of Jonesborough; Battle of Franklin (1864); Battle of Nashville; ;

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] His story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" has been described as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature",^[5] and his book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (also published as In the Midst of Life) was named by the Grolier Club one of the 100 most influential American books printed before 1900.^[6]

A prolific and versatile writer, Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States^[7]^[8] and as a pioneering writer of realist fiction.^[9] For his horror writing, Michael Dirda ranked him alongside Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft.^[10] S. T. Joshi speculates that he may well be the greatest satirist America has ever produced, and in this regard can take his place with such figures as Juvenal, Swift, and Voltaire.^[11] His war stories influenced Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, and others,^[12] and he was considered an influential and feared literary critic.^[13] In recent decades, Bierce has gained wider respect as a fabulist and for his poetry.^[14]^[15]

In 1913, Bierce told reporters that he was travelling to Mexico to gain first-hand experience of the Mexican Revolution.^[16] He disappeared and was never seen again.

^ McWilliams, Carey. Ambrose Bierce: A Biography. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1967, pp. 324–25.
^ Floyd 1999, p. 18.
^ D'Ammassa, Don (2006). Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction. New York: Facts On File, Inc.
^ "Franklin Library 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature 1976–1984", Leather Bound Treasure.
^ "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge: Ambrose Bierce." Short Story Criticism, v. 72, Joseph Palmisano, ed. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2004, p. 2.
^ Adams, Frederick B.; Winterich, John T.; Johnson, Thomas H.; and McKay, George L. One Hundred Influential American Books Printed Before 1900: Catalogue and Addresses. New York: The Grolier Club, 1947, p. 124.
^ Grenander, M. E. Ambrose Bierce, Boston: Twayne, 1971, p. 10.
^ Mundt, Whitney R., "Ambrose Bierce" in Dictionary of Literary Biography v. 23: American Newspaper Journalists, 1873–1900, Ashley, Perry J., ed., Detroit: Gale Research, 1983, p. 25. See also Bierce, Ambrose, Skepticism and Dissent: Selected Journalism from 1898–1901, Lawrence I. Berkove, ed., Ann Arbor: Delmas, 1980; Lindley, Daniel, Ambrose Bierce Takes on the Railroad: The Journalist as Muckraker and Cynic, Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999; Ramirez, Salvador A.,A Clash of Titans: Ambrose Bierce, Collis Huntington and the 1896 Fight to Refund the Central Pacific's Debt to the Federal Government, San Luis Rey, Calif: Tentacled Press, 2010; Drabelle, Dennis, The Great American Railroad War: How Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris Took on the Notorious Central Pacific Railroad, New York: St. Martin's, 2012; West, Richard Samuel, The San Francisco Wasp: An Illustrated History, Northampton, MA: Periodyssey Press, 2004, pp. 45–59, 310–11.
^ Grenander, M.E., "Ambrose Bierce" in Dictionary of Literary Biography v. 12: American Realists and Naturalists, Pizer, Donald and Harbert, Earl N., eds., Detroit: Gale Research, 1982, pp. 23–36.
^ Dirda, Michael, "Thirteen for Halloween", The American Scholar, October 28, 2015.
^ Kelley, Rich. "The Library of America interviews S. T. Joshi about Ambrose Bierce". The Library of America. September 2011.
^ Joshi, S. T. in Kelley, Rich, "The Library of America interviews S. T. Joshi about Ambrose Bierce," The Library of America e-Newsletter, Sept. 2011.
^ Grenander, M.E., "Ambrose Bierce" in Dictionary of Literary Biography v. 71: American Literary Critics and Scholars, 1880–1900, Rathbun, John W. and Grecu, Monica M., eds., Detroit: Gale Research, 1988, pp. 27–37.
^ Joshi, S.T., "Introduction," The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce, Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2000, p. xxi.
^ Grenander, M.E., "Introduction" to Poems of Ambrose Bierce, Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1995, p. xiii.
^ Bierce letter from Chihuahua to Blanche Partington dated December 26, 1913. Printed in A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz, eds. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2003, pp. 244–46.

[1] McWilliams, Carey. Ambrose Bierce: A Biography. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1967, pp. 324–25.

[FOOTNOTEFloyd199918-2] Floyd 1999, p. 18.

[3] D'Ammassa, Don (2006). Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction. New York: Facts On File, Inc.

[4] "Franklin Library 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature 1976–1984", Leather Bound Treasure.

[5] "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge: Ambrose Bierce." Short Story Criticism, v. 72, Joseph Palmisano, ed. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2004, p. 2.

[6] Adams, Frederick B.; Winterich, John T.; Johnson, Thomas H.; and McKay, George L. One Hundred Influential American Books Printed Before 1900: Catalogue and Addresses. New York: The Grolier Club, 1947, p. 124.

[7] Grenander, M. E. Ambrose Bierce, Boston: Twayne, 1971, p. 10.

[8] Mundt, Whitney R., "Ambrose Bierce" in Dictionary of Literary Biography v. 23: American Newspaper Journalists, 1873–1900, Ashley, Perry J., ed., Detroit: Gale Research, 1983, p. 25. See also Bierce, Ambrose, Skepticism and Dissent: Selected Journalism from 1898–1901, Lawrence I. Berkove, ed., Ann Arbor: Delmas, 1980; Lindley, Daniel, Ambrose Bierce Takes on the Railroad: The Journalist as Muckraker and Cynic, Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999; Ramirez, Salvador A.,A Clash of Titans: Ambrose Bierce, Collis Huntington and the 1896 Fight to Refund the Central Pacific's Debt to the Federal Government, San Luis Rey, Calif: Tentacled Press, 2010; Drabelle, Dennis, The Great American Railroad War: How Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris Took on the Notorious Central Pacific Railroad, New York: St. Martin's, 2012; West, Richard Samuel, The San Francisco Wasp: An Illustrated History, Northampton, MA: Periodyssey Press, 2004, pp. 45–59, 310–11.

[9] Grenander, M.E., "Ambrose Bierce" in Dictionary of Literary Biography v. 12: American Realists and Naturalists, Pizer, Donald and Harbert, Earl N., eds., Detroit: Gale Research, 1982, pp. 23–36.

[10] Dirda, Michael, "Thirteen for Halloween", The American Scholar, October 28, 2015.

[11] Kelley, Rich. "The Library of America interviews S. T. Joshi about Ambrose Bierce". The Library of America. September 2011.

[12] Joshi, S. T. in Kelley, Rich, "The Library of America interviews S. T. Joshi about Ambrose Bierce," The Library of America e-Newsletter, Sept. 2011.

[13] Grenander, M.E., "Ambrose Bierce" in Dictionary of Literary Biography v. 71: American Literary Critics and Scholars, 1880–1900, Rathbun, John W. and Grecu, Monica M., eds., Detroit: Gale Research, 1988, pp. 27–37.

[14] Joshi, S.T., "Introduction," The Collected Fables of Ambrose Bierce, Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2000, p. xxi.

[15] Grenander, M.E., "Introduction" to Poems of Ambrose Bierce, Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 1995, p. xiii.

[16] Bierce letter from Chihuahua to Blanche Partington dated December 26, 1913. Printed in A Much Misunderstood Man: Selected Letters of Ambrose Bierce, S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz, eds. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2003, pp. 244–46.

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Ambrose Bierce
Bierce around 1866
Born	Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-06-24)June 24, 1842 Meigs County, Ohio, U.S.
Disappeared	c. 1914 (aged 71–72)^[1]

Occupation	Soldier journalist writer
Genres	Satire journalism short story horror fiction war fiction fantasy science fiction western memoir humor literary criticism poetry
Literary movement	American Realism
Notable works	"Chickamauga" "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" "The Death of Halpin Frayser" "The Moonlit Road" The Devil's Dictionary Tales of Soldiers and Civilians
Spouse	Mary Ellen "Mollie" Day (m. 1871; div. 1904)
Children	3
Signature


Military career
Allegiance	United States
Service/branch	Union Army
Years of service	1861–1866
Rank	First lieutenant
Unit	9th Indiana Infantry Regiment
Battles/wars	American Civil War Battle of Philippi Battle of Laurel Mountain Battle of Corrick's Ford Battle of Cheat Mountain Battle of Greenbrier River Battle of Camp Allegheny Battle of Shiloh Siege of Corinth Battle of Perryville Battle of Stones River Battle of Chickamauga Chattanooga Campaign Battle of Lookout Mountain Battle of Missionary Ridge Battle of Resaca Battle of Kennesaw Mountain Atlanta Campaign Battle of Jonesborough Battle of Franklin (1864) Battle of Nashville