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1. Ambrose Bierce
Or
Dod Grile
Name: Ambrose Gwinnete Bierce
Born: June 24 1842
Place: Horse Cave Creek, Meigs
County, Ohio
(Ten of thirteen sibling all with letter A
first names)
Occupation: Author, Columnist
Died: 1914 Chihuahua Mexico
(as legend goes)

2. Birth place
Ohio

3. Ambrose Bierce disappeared while travelling to
Mexico to link up with Pancho Villa

4. Sources
• http://www.online-literature.com/bierce/
• http://donswaim.com/
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose_Bierce
• http://www.ambrosebierce.org/
• https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ambrose-
Bierce/108250812531942?directed_target_id=0&rf=
106220546081444
• Google Images

5. Early Life
Parents: Marcus Aurelius Bierce
Laura Sherwood Bierce
Bierce siblings: Abigail, Amelia, Ann, Addison,
Aurelius, Augustus, Almeda, Andrew, Albert,
Ambrose, Arthur, Adelia, and Aurelia.
At age fifteen became a "printer's devil".

6. Careers
Fought in civil war (Decorated)
Treasury Agent
US mint worker (San Francisco)
Columnist and Editor (Prattle)

7. Style
• Abrupt beginnings
• Dark imagery
• Vague references to time
• Limited descriptions
• Impossible events
• Theme of war
• Social criticism/ cynicism

8. Famous works
• Considered a master of pure English
• An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (Short Story)
• The Devils Dictionary (most quoted) (Urban dictionary)

9. An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge
Plot:
Confederate sympathizer caught and sentenced
to hang.
His life Flashes before his eyes

10. Influences
Influence by
Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, Voltaire, Jonathan
Swift
Influenced
Ernest Hemingway, Julio Cortazar , H.L. Mecken