Ambrose Bierce : a biographical sketch : typescript, [between 1914 and 1927]

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Ambrose Bierce : a biographical sketch : typescript, [between 1914 and 1927]

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Literary sketch of Ambrose Bierce by Herman Scheffauer recalls Bierce's role as Scheffauer's friend and mentor, and describes Bierce's life and supposed death. Scheffauer also refers to having successfully given Bierce's work a new life in translation in Germany.

5 p.

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ger,

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Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914?

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Ambrose Bierce was born in Horse Cave Creek, Ohio, on June 24, 1842. After military service in the Civil War, he settled in San Francisco, where he met Mark Twain and became a columnist and writer. Bierce became known for his sharp, sarcastic wit while writing for the "Argonaut," the "Wasp," and the "San Francisco Examiner." A member of the Bohemian Club, he became acquainted with many of the prominent San Francisco authors. After his retirement Bierce traveled into Texas and toward Mexico, at a...

Scheffauer, Herman George, 1878-1927

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San Francisco writer and critic, translated into German several of Thomas Mann's stories, including Bashan and I, and Beatrix Potter poetry; the author of "Dynamic Architecture : New Forms of Architecture" published in Dial in March 1921; died in Germany under mysterious circumstances (he fell out of a window); married to Ethel Talbot Scheffauer, writer of "School Stories." From the description of Letter to Mr. O'Donnell, 1913 March 8. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 56...