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	Ambrose Bierce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bierce was born in a rural area of Meigs County, Ohio and lived during his adolescence in the town of Elkhart, Indiana.
		Bierce was reckoned a master of "pure" English by his contemporaries, and virtually everything that came from his pen was notable for its judicious wording and economy of style.
		Bierce is depicted as a detective in series of mystery novels by Oakley Hall, including Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades and Ambrose Bierce and the Death of Kings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ambrose_Bierce (1731 words)

	Ambrose Bierce - MSN Encarta
		Ambrose Gwinett Bierce was born in Meigs County, Ohio.
		Bierce returned to San Francisco in 1877, writing for the Argonaut, editing the Wasp, and writing a column for the Sunday Examiner, owned by William Randolph Hearst.
		Bierce's wit and fascination with death and horror earned him the nickname Bitter Bierce; his mastery of the short story was compared favorably with that of the American writers Edgar Allan Poe and Bret Harte.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761564621/Ambrose_Bierce.html (234 words)

	Ambrose Bierce, Forked Tongue, (GGW#5)
		The story of Ambrose Bierce told in the language of his "Devil's Dictionary", using hypertext language to create a fiendish translation of the life and works - and humour - of this acidic satirist and adventurer.
		Bierce, the writer and journalist, was well aware of an anarchic basis to language and the limitations of attempts to govern it.
		Bierce's Devil felt no need to topple him from a state of innocence, only a necessity to record the hypocrisies and evils which are the proud legacy of "Rev John Satan" (LL.D.).
	www.keele.ac.uk /depts/as/Literature/Bierce/forked.html (2889 words)

	Ambrose Bierce
		Bierce is best-known for his numerous short stories collected in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891), which show the influence of Edgar Allan Poe.
		Bierce was born in Meigs County, Ohio, as the tenth of thirteen children.
		Bierce was a topographical officer on General William B. Hazen's staff and fought in several battles including the one that later provided the setting for 'Chickamauga' (1889), one of his best stories.
	www.classicreader.com /author.php/aut.131 (655 words)

	Ambrose Bierce - Biography and Works
		Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) was the author of supernatural stories that have secured his place in both the weird tradition and in American letters at large.
		Bierce was born in Ohio on June 24, 1842.
		In time, Bierce established himself a kind of literary dictator of the West Coast and was so respected and feared as a critic that his judgment could "make or break" an aspiring author's reputation.
	www.online-literature.com /bierce (364 words)

	Ambrose Bierce
		Ambrose Bierce was born in Meigs County, Ohio, on 24th June, 1842.
		Bierce was a member of the force led by General Don Carlos Buell that forced the Confederate to retreat.
		Bierce was deeply shocked by what he saw at Shiloh and after the war wrote several short stories based on this experience.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAbierce.htm (1557 words)

	Ambrose Bierce - Free Online Library
		Ambrose Bierce was born in Meigs County, Ohio, the tenth of thirteen children of Marcus and Laura Bierce.
		Bierce was a topographical officer on General William B. Hazen's staff.
		At Kenesaw Mountain, Bierce was wounded in the temple and the bullet lodged within his skull behind his left ear.
	bierce.thefreelibrary.com (855 words)

	Ambrose Bierce - Books and Biography
		Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) was born in Meigs County, Ohio, as the tenth of thirteen children of Marcus and Laura Bierce.
		Bierce's father had a large private library, and he spent much time with the books - his name Marcus Aurelius was given after the famous Roman emperor.
		In 1861 Bierce enlisted in the army, rising eventually to the rank of lieutenant.
	www.readprint.com /author-7/Ambrose-Bierce (966 words)

	Civil War Indiana Biographies - Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
		Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born June 24, 1842, in a log cabin on Horse Cave Creek, in Meigs County, Ohio.
		Bierce wrote for Sunday Examiner which was owned by William Randolph Hearst, but left there and unsuccessfully tried placer mining in the Dakota Territory.
		The writings of Ambrose Bierce were often compared to those of Edgar Allen Poe and Bret Harte, and he in turn is said to have influenced the writing of Stephen Crane and O. Henry.
	civilwarindiana.com /biographies/bierce_ambrose_gwinnett.html (371 words)

	Ambrose Bierce
		As often as I have set out to write about Ambrose Bierce as a California Author, I have turned aside from the task, principally because it's so very hard to be in the presence of his cynical pessimism for very long.
		In addition, the legend of Bierce-his disappearance at age 71 near the Mexican border-continues to inspire travelers and speculators; recently, for example, "The Devil and Ambrose Bierce" by Jacob Silverstein in the February 2002 issue of the esteemed Harper's Magazine.
		Bierce exchanged his experience of hand-to-hand combat and mass slaughter for the chance to witness the widespread corruption and profiteering that followed the Union victory.
	www.cateweb.org /CA_Authors/bierce.html (1118 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Ambrose Bierce
		Bierce was in the thick of the fighting, and was gravely wounded, his head "broken like a walnut" by a bullet at the Battle of Kenesaw Mountain.
		Bierce was an orderly to officers and knew what it was like to be "an object of lively interest to some thousands of admiring marksman." In his other stories, Bierce folds in details of his own service (Owl Creek is near Shiloh).
		Bierce was always willing to see the wrong side of a matter, always known for his inability to smell a rose without thinking of the fertilizer that fed the roots.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/08.29.96/cover/bierce-9635.html (3403 words)

	Fiction: Ambrose Bierce
		Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?), the youngest of nine children, was born in a log cabin in Horse Cave Creek, Ohio.
		Bierce is known as the author of the philosophical epigrams in The Devil's Dictionary (1906), but his two volumes of short stories are his finest achievement as a writer.
		Bierce's first story collection, In the Midst of Life, was published privately in San Francisco under the title Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891).
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/fiction/bierce.htm (383 words)

	Ambrose Bierce, Master of the Macabre
		Bierce spent the year 1880 gold mining and shotgun-riding in the Black Hill s of South Dakota for Wells Fargo and Co. but was back in San Francisco in December of that year.
		Bierce accepted and was again writing the "Prattle" column; but he also wrote many stories and various sketches and essays.
		Ambrose Bierce wrote a total of ninety-three short stories (based on published material at the time of this writing) -- of which fifty-three are what we may term "supernatural": they offer an escape from the well-known and unbroken laws of the mundane, ranging from mysterious telepathic power to survival on earth after death.
	alangullette.com /lit/bierce/master.htm (3309 words)

	Ambrose Bierce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Born on June 24, 1842, in Meigs County, Ohio, Ambrose Gwinnette Bierce was one of thirteen children of Marcus Aurelius and Laura Bierce.
		Bierce enlisted with the Ninth Indiana Infantry and fought in one of the first battles of the Civil War at Philippi, West Virginia.
		For instance, in "Chickamauga," Bierce describes a disillusioned child mounting a wounded soldier who "lacked a lower jaw" and "from the upper teeth to the throat was a great red gap fringed with hanging shreds of flesh and splinters of bone" (Collected Writings of Ambrose Bierce, 21).
	www.uncp.edu /home/canada/work/allam/18661913/lit/bierce.htm (1344 words)

	Ambrose Bierce
		Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) was one of the foremost writers of the 19th - century.
		All the while Bierce wrote war stories, horror stories, novels, and short stories of the mysterious and the macabre.
		Ambrose Bierce chaffed at this world as long as he could, but after losing his wife to divorce and two sons to death, the asthmatic, superstitious, bilious atheist felt compelled to write his friends of his premonition of approaching death.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/john_murphy/ambrosebierce.html (699 words)

	Ambrose Bierce (1842 — 1914)
		Such was Bierce's venerable reputation, that it was feared that his judgment on any contemporary fiction of the day could make or break a writer's career.
		In fact, Bierce had never even heard a lecture, nor had he read a syllable written by Wilde, So when Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, who was nearing the end of his North American lecture tour, placed his card on the Prattler's desk, Bierce was more amused than annoyed, especially at the Irishman's outlandish costume.
		Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) was one of nineteenth-century America's most renowned satirists.
	www.jahsonic.com /Bierce.html (421 words)

	Ambrose Bierce
		One of the most intriguing mysteries in American literary history is the baffling disappearance of Ambrose Bierce in 1913.
		Bierce had arrived in San Antonio from New Orleans on October 27, 1913, where he was welcomed uncharacteristically, according to Carey McWilliams, by an autumn blizzard.
		The last several words of Bierce's description seem to echo Stephen Crane's reverent phrase, "the patriot shrine of Texas." Not so reverent was Bierce's remark that the Alamo looked small enough to be covered with a hat (Morris 253).
	www.accd.edu /sac/english/mcquien/htmlfils/bierce.htm (549 words)

	ABAS: The Life of Bierce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ambrose Gwinett Bierce came into this world on June 24, 1842 in Meigs County, Ohio, son of Marcus Aurelius and Laura Sherwood Bierce.
		Bierce wasn't the first in his family to have interest in the military.
		Bierce worked primarily as a topographical engineer, where his excellent and valiant performance allowed him to rise through the ranks.
	www.biercephile.com /life.cfm (1081 words)

	PAL: Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)
		The Experimental Fictions of Ambrose Bierce: Structuring the Ineffable.
		Wymer, Thomas L. "Ambrose Bierce." Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror, 2: A. Coppard to Roger Zelazny.
		"Ambrose Bierce and the Transformation of the Gothic Tale in the Nineteenth Century American Periodical." Periodical Literature in Nineteenth Century America.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap6/bierce.html (443 words)

	Ambrose Bierce in GRAPHIC CLASSICS
		Born in rural Ohio in 1842, Bierce became a printer's apprentice for a small Indiana newspaper until 1860, when he enlisted in the Union army.
		In his time, Bierce was a celebrity as a satirical columnist, but disappointment over a lack of acceptance of his fiction and a troubled personal life, including a divorce and the death of his two sons, caused him to become increasingly bitter and withdrawn in his later years.
		Bierce's poem, The Mummy, appears in Horror Classics, illustrated by Brandon Ragnar Johnson.
	www.graphicclassics.com /pgs/abierce.htm (316 words)

	Ambrose Bierce meets Oscar Wilde (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bierce observed that intoxication was a spiritual condition that goeth before the next morning.
		Bierce, although I firmly believe that while no crime is vulgar, all vulgarity is a crime." Wilde saw life in America as one long expectoration but made allowances for it.
		Bierce strode from the wings and aimed a fist at a jaw.
	www.donswaim.com /bierce-wilde.html (2313 words)

	The Ambrose Bierce Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bierce suffered no fools, spared no enemies, and spat in the face of man-made gods and those who prayed to them.
		In it, Bierce, a spinster (Fonda), and one of Pancho Villa's lieutenants (Smits) cross paths in the Mexican Revolution of 1913.
		Bierce served on the satirical weekly from 1881 to 1886, making pungent observations in his "Prattle" column and at one point becoming managing editor.
	donswaim.com (1371 words)

	The Ambrose Bierce Appreciation Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Bierce, of course, was editor of this famous satirical magazine.
		Bierce Play Awards: Ed Scutt's new play about Ambrose Bierce, Almighty God Bierce, was invited to the 2003 Theatre Association of New York State's (TANYS) Festival, where Mr.
		Bierce's distant relative Paul Bierce has written some fiction in the style of his ancestor: "A Ghost Story."
	www.biercephile.com (1312 words)

	Ambrose Bierce
		In time, Bierce established himself a kind of literary dictator of the West Coast and was so respected and feared as a critic that his judgement could "make or break" an aspiring author's reputation.
		Although a popular theory is that Bierce argued with Villa over military strategy and was subsequently shot, he probably perished in the battle of Ojinaga on January 11, 1914.
		This collection, the first of Bierce's letters since 1922, promises to redraw our traditional picture of the cynical misanthropist by revealing a caring father, a literary critic who actually encouraged some writers, and a social critic whose barbed pen sought to point out the good as well as the bad in human affairs.
	alangullette.com /lit/bierce (1183 words)

	Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Bierce’s collection of sardonic definitions, The Cynic’s Word Book (1906), was retitled The Devil’s Dictionary in 1911.
		He was also highly praised for The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter (1892), which he adapted from a translation of a German story.
		Bierce’s distinction lies in his distilled satire, in the crisp precision of his language, and in his realistically developed horror stories.
	www.bartleby.com /65/bi/Bierce-A.html (346 words)

	Ambrose Bierce
		and An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge, Bierce was born in Ohio to religious parents.
		He was not a freemason although his uncle Lucius Verus Bierce was Grand Master of Ohio in 1854.
		One time editor for the San Francisco News-Letter and California Advertiser (1868-72), Bierce is best remembered for his cynical but humourous Devil’s Dictionary, in which he had nothing favourable to say about Freemasonry.
	freemasonry.bcy.ca /biography/bierce_a/bierce_a.html (118 words)

	Ambrose Bierce
		Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was born in Meigs County, Ohio, as the tenth of thirteen children of Marcus and Laura Bierce.
		In South America Ambrose Bierce has also influenced Jorge Luis Borges, and Julio Cortázar.
		by Richard O'Connor (1968); Ambrose Bierce by M.E. Grenander (1971); The Experimental Fictions of Ambrose Bierce by C.N. Davidson (1984);
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /bierce.htm (1499 words)

	Poet: Ambrose Bierce - All poems of Ambrose Bierce
		Ambrose Gwinett Bierce came into this world on June 24, 1842 in Meigs County, Ohio, son of Marcus Aurelius...
		Bierce is depicted as a detective in series of mystery novels by Oakley Hall, including Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades and Ambrose Bierce and the...
		The myth and mind of Ambrose Bierce, with original prose and poetry.
	www.poemhunter.com /ambrose-bierce/poet-3024 (271 words)

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