The Devil’s Journalist: Ambrose Bierce and His Disappearance
Ambrose Bierce was a Civil War veteran, journalist, and master of the macabre whose razor-sharp pen made him both feared and admired. In 1913, at seventy-one yearsold, he left the United States for war-torn Mexico—and vanished. This episode traces Bierce’s journey from log cabin childhood to battlefield survivor, from satirical journalist to literary legend, before diving into one of the greatestmysteries in American history: what became of Ambrose Bierce?Source MaterialsIntroduction to A Sole Survivor: Bits of Autobiography by Ambrose BierceWhy did brothers fight on opposite sides of the Civil War? | HowStuffWorksDisappearance of Ambrose Bierce - Historic MysteriesAmbrose Bierce, Hoosier author and Civil War vet, vanished in MexicoCarey McWilliams. Ambrose Bierce: A Biography. New York: Albert and Charles Boni, 1929. S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz. Ambrose Bierce: The Devil’s Lexicographer. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2002.
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Ambrose Bierce was a Civil War veteran, journalist, and master of the macabre whose razor-sharp pen made him both feared and admired. In 1913, at seventy-one yearsold, he left the United States for war-torn Mexico—and vanished. This episode traces Bierce’s journey from log cabin childhood to battlefield survivor, from satirical journalist to literary legend, before diving into one of the greatestmysteries in American history: what became of Ambrose Bierce?Source MaterialsIntroduction to A Sole S...