Who is Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – c. 1914) was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and American Civil War veteran. His book The Devil's Dictionary was named as one of "The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature" by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. His story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" has been described as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature", and his book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (also published as In the Midst of Life) was named by the Grolier Club as one of the 100 most influential American books printed before 1900.A prolific and versatile writer, Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States, and as a pioneering writer of realist f...
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Ambrose Bierce Poems

• The Day Of Wrath
  Day of Satan's painful duty!
  Earth shall vanish, hot and sooty;
  So says Virtue, so says Beauty.
  ...
• France
  Unhappy State! with horrors still to strive:
  Thy Hugo dead, thy Boulanger alive;
  A Prince who'd govern where he dares not dwell,
  And who for power would his birthright sell ...
• Four Of A Kind
  ROBERT F. MORROW
  
  Dear man! although a stranger and a foe
  To soft affection's humanizing glow; ...
• Bats In Sunshine
  Well, Mr. Kemble, you are called, I think,
  A great divine, and I'm a great profane.
  You as a Congregationalist blink
  Some certain truths that I esteem a gain, ...
• A Dampened Ardor
  The Chinatown at Bakersfield
  Was blazing bright and high;
  The flames to water would not yield,
  Though torrents drenched the sky ...

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Ambrose Bierce Quotes

• Faith Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
• The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
• Painting The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
• The covers of this book are too far apart.
• Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

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Comments about Ambrose Bierce

• Goodymas: "there is nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we don't know yet." -- ambrose bierce
• Ambrose__bierce: i saw an armadillo at the war museum a couple weeks ago, man, i’m telling you, that thing was so damn cute!!!!!
• Chris_oliff: from the week news - “how heritable is intelligence? nothing like as heritable as money.” ambrose bierce, quoted in city journal
• Gswsyndicate: reconsider, v. to seek a justification for a decision already made. ~ambrose bierce
• Etherniko: ambrose bierce a hundred years ago: "war is god's way of teaching geography to americans."

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