Bierce

American  

[beers] / bɪərs /

noun

1. Ambrose (Gwinnett) 1842–1914?, U.S. journalist and short-story writer.

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Bierce British  

/ bɪəs /

noun

1. Ambrose ( Gwinett ). 1842–?1914, US journalist and author of humorous sketches, horror stories, and tales of the supernatural: he disappeared during a mission in Mexico (1913)

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Example Sentences

Didn’t you lure Ambrose Bierce to the Mexican border?”

From Literature

He charted this new terrain, and it’s in Bierce that we find the original experience that all subsequent American war writers would grapple with.

From The Guardian

Head shots in that era were almost always fatal, but Bierce survived not only the initial wound, but an awful two-day train ride on an open flatcar to an army hospital in Chattanooga.

From The Guardian

When I was in high school, my English class read a famous short story called “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” written in 1890 by Ambrose Bierce.

From The New Yorker

Hemingway and Dos Passos in the first world war; Mailer, Heller, Jones and Vonnegut in the second world war; O’Brien, Herr and Marlantes in Vietnam: they’re all heritors of Bierce.

From The Guardian