Ambrose Bierce

Also known as Dod Grile, William Herman, Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce

American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist (1842–1914)

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Ambrose Bierce was an American writer who began his professional work period in 1871. He was born on June 24, 1842, and died in 1914, with a recorded date of disappearance on December 27, 1913. During his career, he used the pseudonyms "Dod Grile" and "William Herman."

His literary output includes works such as the quote, "The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling." He is often associated with authors including H. P. Lovecraft, Guy De Maupassant, Mark Twain, Robert E. Howard, and M. R. James. His writings have been categorized under audiobook and Librivox tags, and he has been referenced by 456 other encyclopedia articles.

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Active from: 1842-06-24
Active to: 1914

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 1,214
Total plays: 7,852

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Minimal information for studies of extracellular vesicles 2018 (MISEV2018): a position statement of the International Society for Extracellular Vesicles and update of the MISEV2014 guidelines
· 2018 · cited 9,640x
The pathophysiology of cigarette smoking and cardiovascular disease
· 2004 · cited 1,939x
Single-Cell Map of Diverse Immune Phenotypes in the Breast Tumor Microenvironment
· 2018 · cited 1,870x
Recovering Gene Interactions from Single-Cell Data Using Data Diffusion
· 2018 · cited 1,720x
Measuring the Spin Polarization of a Metal with a Superconducting Point Contact
· 1998 · cited 1,673x

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Quotes

“The fact that boys are allowed to exist at all is evidence of remarkable Christian forbearance among men — were it not for a mawkish humanitarianism, coupled with imperfect digestive powers, we should devour our young, as Nature intended.”
“Peyton Fahrquhar was dead; his body, with a broken neck, swung gently from side to side beneath the timbers of the Owl Creek bridge.”
“True, more than a half of the green graves in the Grafton cemetery are marked "Unknown," and sometimes it occurs that one thinks of the contradiction involved in "honoring the memory" of him of whom no memory remains to honor; but the attempt seems to do no great harm to the living, even to the logical.”
“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.”
“Mark how my fame rings out from zone to zone:A thousand critics shouting: "He's unknown!"”
“Study Herod, madame, study Herod.”

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Official website

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Works in European collections

2 objects attributed to Ambrose Bierce, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – c. 1914) was an American author, journalist, and poet. 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 fiction. For his horror writing, Michael Dirda ranked him alongside Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. S. T. Joshi speculates that he may well be the greatest satirist America has ever produced, and in this regard can take his place with such figures as Juvenal, Swift, and Voltaire. His war stories influenced Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway and others, and he was considered an influential and feared literary critic. In recent decades, Bierce has gained wider respect as a fabulist and poet.

His book The Devil's Dictionary was named 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 one of the 100 most influential American books printed before 1900.

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