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Bierce, Ambrose Gwinnett

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Bierce, Ambrose Gwinnett (1842-c. 1914)

US author. After service in the American Civil War, he established his reputation as a master of the short story, his themes being war and the supernatural, as in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891) and Can Such Things Be? (1893). He also wrote The Devil's Dictionary (1911; first published as The Cynic's Word Book in 1906), a collection of ironic definitions showing his sardonic humour. He disappeared in Mexico in 1913.

He was writer-editor of the San Francisco Newsletter, publisher of short stories by Mark Twain and Bret Harte, and the satirical columnist known as ‘The Prattler’ 1887-1906.



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