Ambrose Bierce was born in Meiggs County, Ohio. He served throughout the Civil War, was brevetted major for distinguished services. After the war, he went to San Francisco, where he held editorial positions on several San Francisco weeklies. In 1872, he went to London and there for four years he continued his journalistic career. His first literary work appeared while he was abroad. He returned in 1876 to San Francisco and for nearly all of the next …showed first 75 words of 291 total…

…showed last 75 words of 291 total…Mr. Sterling says, but we cannot forget them. "His heroes, or rather victims, are lonely men, passing to unpredictable dooms, and hearing, from inaccessible crypts of space, the voices of unseen malevolences." In November, 1913, Bierce left San Francisco and went to Mexico. For a number of years there was no word whatever about him. But it now seems clearly certain that he was shot in 1914 by one or another of the revolutionary factions in Mexico