Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914?)
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j BACKGROUND
Born in Ohio and reared on a farm in Indiana
Attended a military academy in Kentucky and entered the Civil War, fighting for the Union
j CAREER
After the Civil War, he became a columnist in San Francisco and there published many short stories
He mysteriously disappeared while traveling in Mexico during its bloody civil war (thus the year of his death is uncertain)
j WORKS
The Devil's Dictionary, a book of humorous and cynical definitions
"An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge"
"One Kind of Officer"
j QUOTE
"It is not permitted to you to know -- anything."
j SIGNIFICANCE
Unsentimental, cynical view expressed with satire and understatement
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