Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce blasted out of his mother on June 24th 1842, and was born in Ohio. He was the 10th kid out of 13 total. He moved to Indiana which is where he went to high school. He then went to Kentucky Military Institute, and ended up enlisting into the Union army when the Civil war was going on. He boldly fought in some dangerous battles (Shiloh, and Chickamauga.) After the Civil War was over Ambrose wasn’t doing much of anything until he traveled with the military to California for an expedition, but when he got there he decided he wanted out of the military because he wanted to start his writing career. (IN-TEXT CITATION)Ambrose’s writing career was pretty successful right from the start. His poetry showed up in the Californian. In 1868 he became the editor of The News Letter, he also wrote in it as well. Bierce became so well known, and popular in the state of California that he actually had a pretty good friendship with the famous Mark Twain. He goes on to write several articles, and short stories. What I like about Ambrose is the connection he makes. Some of his famous stories are fiction, but yet they somewhat have to do with his life as well. …show more content…
3 films have been made based off of only 1 of his stories. That story was “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge.” None of them are recent though, the films were made in the 1900’s. That same story also appeared in the TV series “The Twilight Zone.” It’s very rare that you watch a show on the television without commercial interruption, but when that episode aired there was no commercials. A copy of the story also appeared on another television series called “Lost.” That story obviously had an impact on people considering it was in several films, and television series, impressive to me. There was also a story written by Carlos Fuentes who wrote a fictional story on Ambrose’s disappearance, which I will get to later on. (IN TEXT