Novelist Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce

Living place: Ohio

Birthday: 24-6-1842

Global rank: #41761

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Who is Novelist Ambrose Bierce?
American novelist and journalist who became known for his 1891 short story, "An Happening at Owl Creek Bridge." He also famously published a satirical work called The Devil's Dictionary.
Leaving after only a letter that read, "As I am, I leave here tomorrow for an unknown location," he disappeared forever in 1913. His fate remains a mystery. .
 
 

Young / Before famous

When he was fifteen years old, he left home to work for an Ohio newspaper. He went on to serve in the Union Army in several key battles of the American Civil War. He later pursued a writing career in both London and San Francisco.

Family life info

He separated from his wife, Mollie Day, in 1888 after discovering letters from his lover. The couple are parents to three children:. Day, Leigh, and Helen

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When was Novelist Ambrose Bierce born?
Ambrose Bierce was born in 24-6-1842, death year is , at the age of 182.
Where is Novelist Ambrose Bierce's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Ambrose Bierce was born in Ohio, . is a Novelist, whose Zodiac is Cancer, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Tiger. Ambrose Bierce's global rank is 41761 and whose rank is 274 in list of famous Novelist.
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Events in 1842 and 24-6

Birthday Ambrose Bierce (24-6) in history

  • Day 24-6 year 1509: Henry VIII is officially crowned king of England.
  • Day 24-6 year 1647: Early American feminist Margaret Brent requested a seat and vote in the Maryland Congress but was removed from that body.
  • Day 24-6 year 1675: The day of the deadliest war commanded by King Philip between the colonists and the Indians began with the Indians attacking the settlement of Swansea (Mass).
  • Day 24-6 year 1908: The 22nd and 24th president of the United States, Grover Cleveland, died in Princeton, N.J.
  • Day 24-6 year 1947: Kenneth Arnold, an American pilot, reported seeing strange objects near Mt. Rainier, Washington. He described them as "saucers skipping across the water," hence the term "flying saucers" was born.
  • Day 24-6 year 1948: The Soviet Union began a blockade of Berlin. Allied forces responded with what would be known as the Berlin Airlift flying in more than 2 million tons of supplies over the next year.
  • Day 24-6 year 1997: The U.S. Air Force released The Roswell Report, closing the case on the 1947 Roswell, N.M. incident concerning UFOs and alien bodies.
  • Day 24-6 year 2011: New York passes a law to allow same-sex marriage, becoming the largest state that allows gay and lesbian couples to marry.
  • Day 24-6 year 2012: Lonesome George, the last known Pinta Island Tortoise, died at a Galapagos National Park, making the subspecies extinct.
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