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To contemporary audiences, Ambrose Bierce is known for his writings—journalism, essays, and short fictions—for his cynicism and his misanthropy, and for his famous disappearance into revolution- torn Mexico in 1913, an adventure from which he never returned. His literary reputation, however, rests primarily on his short stories of the Civil War and the supernatural. In both of these genres, Bierce explores his interest in bizarre forms of death and the...

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Ambrose Bierce Biographies (9)

Ambrose Bierce

3,075 words, approx. 11 pages

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 com... Read more

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

476 words, approx. 2 pages

The American writer Ambrose Gwinett Bierce (1842-ca. 1914) expressed the cynicism of the post-Civil War era and shaped both the materials and the methods of writers who later voiced the disillusionmen... Read more

Ambrose (Gwinett) Bierce

6,653 words, approx. 23 pages

The achievement of Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce as a humorist is underrated, largely because attention has focused on his grim tales of war and the macabre. To consider the great majority of works in his c... Read more

Ambrose (Gwinett) Bierce

6,718 words, approx. 23 pages

The late Carey McWilliams, an astute observer of the national scene, has pointed out that every American should have some familiarity with Ambrose Bierce , that aloof and independent iconoclast who w... Read more

Ambrose (Gwinett) Bierce

4,535 words, approx. 16 pages

Bitter Bierce, the caustic columnist. Thus was Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce best known, and thus is he best remembered. Yet in his lifetime he embraced several careers: soldier, expatriate literatur, gold ... Read more

Ambrose (Gwinett) Bierce

3,850 words, approx. 13 pages

Within the last two decades Ambrose Bierce has begun to attract the scholarly attention his work deserves. For example, Brigid Brophy remarked in 1973 that those who were ignorant of literary history ... Read more

Ambrose (Gwinett) Bierce

3,569 words, approx. 12 pages

In the more than seventy years since his mysterious disappearance in Mexico, Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce has been known almost as much for his colorful life as for his experimental fiction. Well over six ... Read more

Ambrose (Gwinett) Bierce

5,762 words, approx. 20 pages

Ambrose Bierce is far more than a regional, or western, writer. He has come to be recognized as an outstanding exemplar of literary impressionism, a counterweight to the emphasis on realism and natura... Read more

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

8,280 words, approx. 28 pages

Biography EssayThe late Carey McWilliams, himself an astute observer of the national scene, has pointed out that every American should have some familiarity with Ambrose Bierce, that aloof and indepen... Read more

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