Bierce grew up in Kosciusko County, Indiana, attending high school at the county seat, Warsaw. His parents were a poor but literary couple who instilled in him a deep love for books and writing. His mother was a descendant of William Bradford. He was the tenth of thirteen children, all of whom were given names by their father beginning with the letter "A": in order of birth, the Bierce siblings were Abigail, Amelia, Ann, Addison, Aurelius, Augustus, Almeda, Andrew, Albert, Ambrose, Arthur, Adelia, and Aurelia. He often wrote critically of both "Puritan values" and people who "made a fuss" about genealogy. He was of entirely English ancestry: all of his forebears came to North America between 16 as part of the Great Puritan Migration. He disappeared and was never seen again.īierce was born in a log cabin at Horse Cave Creek in Meigs County, Ohio, on June 24, 1842, to Marcus Aurelius Bierce (1799–1876) and Laura Sherwood Bierce. In 1913, Bierce told reporters that he was travelling to Mexico to gain first-hand experience of the Mexican Revolution.
In recent decades Bierce has gained wider respect as a fabulist and for his poetry. His war stories influenced Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway, and others, and he was considered an influential and feared literary critic. 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. For his horror writing, Michael Dirda ranked him alongside Edgar Allan Poe and H. Ī 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. 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. His book The Devil's Dictionary was named as one of "The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature" by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. 1914 ) was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and American Civil War veteran.
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