Devil'S Dictionary (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) eBook

Ambrose Bierce was born in Ohio on June 24, 1842. After the American Civil War, in which he fought on the Union side, Bierce moved to California, where he became a journalist. In England from 1872 onwards, he worked for humor magazines such as... Figaro and the FunHe returned to the United States in 1875, beginning a long period of collaboration with various newspapers.
He would become one of the best-known journalists and writers of his time, leaving no one indifferent to his sharply critical and satirical sense of humanity. With insolent humor, he attacked all quadrants of society: religions, politics, economics, sentimentality... In 1913, at the age of seventy-one, Bierce left to join the Mexican Revolution, without leaving a trace. His death remains a mystery, but it is believed that it may have occurred during the Battle of Ojinaga in January 1914.