Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...BIERCE, AMBROSE GWINETT am broz gwinet birs, 1842 1914?, American satirist, journalist, and short-story writer, b. Meigs...West Coast. Later he was Washington correspondent for the American and a contributor to Cosmopolitan. Bierces collection of...language, his short stories were collected in such volumes as Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891) and Can Such Things Be...precision of his language, and in his realistically developed horror stories. Disillusionment and sadness pervaded the latter...