His work soon became regarded as some of the best literature of the 19th century. In 1904, Ambrose and Mary Ellen divorced, after it was rumoured his wife had been seeing another man.Īmbrose Bierce worked and lived all over the world as a journalist and poet, spending many years in both the UK and his native US. Five years after this in 1871, Bierce married his wife Mary Ellen and the couple went on to have three children two of whom died before their Father, one of pneumonia relating to alcoholism and the other was shot. The opening lines for the poem ‘’A Bad Night’’ can certainly have been written either on, or regarding the battle field…īierce went back to the military and proceeded by horseback through many states including Nebraska and Omaha to arrive in San Francisco, California. Fully in line with the phrase ‘enter a boy leave a man’, life would never be the same for Ambrose Bierce after the army and the horrors he witnessed were penned into some of his finest poems ever published. After a turbulent army career, which included serious head injuries, fire rescues, and serving as a first Lieutenant, he was discharged in 1865. He was a true fighter and even received media attention for daring rescues. At the age of 15 he left home to begin a writing career, becoming a ‘printer’s devil’ for a local newspaper.īierce enlisted in the Union Army’s 9th Infantry Regiment, at the outset of the American Civil war. It was this that showed the importance of reading and writing to a young Bierce who soon grew a deep love for literature. His family were poor but literate which is what got them by. It was then, whilst traveling with rebel troops, that he went missing without a trace.īierce was born, the tenth of thirteen children, in Meigs County, Ohio to his parents, Aurelius and Laura Bierce.
In the year 1913, Bierce decided to visit Mexico in order to gain first hand experience of the current revolution in the country at the time.
The history of this poet is one that’s wide and varied, by any extent of the imagination. The style of writing owned by Bierce was distinctive full of dark imagination, impossible events, vague references to time and a recurring theme of war. Best known today for his short story ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’ and his sardonic view of human nature, which strongly contributed to his nickname ’Bitter Bierce’. Ambrose Bierce was an American journalist, writer, editorialist and poet.
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