Quick Facts About Ambrose Bierce
- Born
- June 24, 1842
- Died
- January 1, 1914
- Nationality
- United States
- Profession
- Author, Journalist, And Poet
- Notable works
- The Devil's Dictionary, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, The Damned Thing
- Spouse
- Mary Ellen Day
About Ambrose Bierce
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American writer, poet, and newspaperman whose output ranged across journalism, satire, and fiction. Counted among the most influential journalists of his era in the United States, he also helped break ground for realist fiction, and his sharp, unsparing judgments made him a literary critic that many writers feared.
Bierce's reputation rests heavily on his darker material. Critic Michael Dirda placed his horror writing in the company of Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft, while scholar S. T. Joshi has suggested he may stand as America's finest satirist, worthy of comparison with Juvenal, Swift, and Voltaire.
His stories of war left a mark on later authors including Stephen Crane and Ernest Hemingway. In more recent decades, readers and critics have come to value Bierce anew as a fabulist and a poet.
Biography source:
Wikipedia
