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Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company

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From: Journalism History
Date: 19960701
Author:Abbott, Eric A

Morris, Roy Jr. Ambrose Bierce: Alone in Bad Company. New York: Crown Publishers, 1995. 306 pp. $30.

"The wickedest man in San Francisco"-an irreverent cynic, provocateur, and incisive chronicler of human inadequacies and failures-Ambrose Bierce has been regarded as an important but secondary figure in American journalism. His The Devil's Dictionary and most famous short story, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek," are still read by students of journalism and literature, but in this biography Roy Morris, Jr. argues that perhaps Bierce deserves a somewhat more prominent place.

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