Author: Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce’s star, once the most tentative of glimmers on the American literary landscape, has shone a bit brighter every year since his death, and he is at last getting something like the attention that is his due. My favorite biography of him is Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company by Roy Morris Jr. (Oxford, 1995), which gives his literary abilities full credit and in a style that has sprinkles of Bierce himself. For Bierce’s works, the Library of America edition is a very good collection, featuring his war stories, reminiscences, horror tales, and the complete Devil’s Dictionary, though none of his journalism is represented.