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Ambrose Bierce was the 10th of 13th children, all of whom were given names that began with the letter "A."
ReplyDeleteBierce was married to Mary Ellen and they had three children. Two sons(Day, Leigh) which died before Bierce did and a daughter(Helen).
ReplyDeletewhen the Civil war started Bierce signed up for the Ninth Indiana Infantry, maybe because he was board or he was called for it.
ReplyDeleteIt was because he had a tumultuous relationship with his father and he wanted to get off the farm and as far away from him as possible . . .
ReplyDeleteAmbrose Bierce earned the nickname "Bitter Bierce" due to his scornful view of human nature and society.
ReplyDelete-Zoe D.
Ambrose Bierce became an editor for News-Letter in 1868 after previously writing for the paper.
ReplyDeleteMichelle A.
Ambrose Bierce was a writer and journalist born in Meigs County, Ohio in 1842. He vanished mysteriously around 1913 after attempting to join Pancho Villa as a revolutionary observer. This is now one of the most famous and interesting literary disappearances in American History.
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In 1913, Ambrose Bierce quit writing and went to mexico after visiting the American Civil War battle grounds. Were he later vanished never to be heard from or seen again. - Victor W.
ReplyDeletehe served three years in the Civil War, in 1864 Ambrose Bierce was shot in the head by a Confederate sniper.
ReplyDeleteAshley Cermele
Ambrose Bierce suffered from Asthma all his life, at least all the time we knew him, since he disappeared in 1914.
ReplyDeletethe short stories he wrote were considered some of the best of the 19th century
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Ambrose's family moved to Indiana, but he moved by himself when he was 15 years old to Warsaw Indiana.
ReplyDeleteMelissa Hernandez
More than three films have been made of Bierce's story.
ReplyDelete- Prithvi A.
Ambrose's house in California has turned into Ambrose Bierce House, a bed & breakfast. They charge $200+ per night...
ReplyDeleteSam G.
Really! How cool! Where in California is it?
ReplyDeleteAmbrose, before he died, wrote a letter to his niece Lora about civilisation. In it he has the picture of the general Thomas Jackson with the nickname "Stonewall".
ReplyDeleteMarie E.
Pierce lived in the Olympia apartments, 1368 Euclid Street, NW, at 14th Street in the Columbia section of Washington D.C. that still a rental building; and he used to have a sunday morning breakfast there for "literary and brain workers" as he said. He also served coffee in a pot shape like a melon!!
ReplyDeleteangie A.
He wrote about his experiences in the civil war in all his 19 fiction books and the most famous or more recognizable of all is "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
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Thanks, everybody, for your comments!
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