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Ambrose Bierce

1842 - 1914

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Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 – c. 1914) was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and American Civil War veteran. His book The Devil's Dictionary was named one of "The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature" by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. His story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" has been described as "one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature", and his book Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (also published as In the Midst of Life) was named by the Grolier Club one of the 100 most influential American books printed before 1900.A prolific and versatile writer, Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States and as a pioneering writer of realist fiction. For his horror writing, Michael Dirda ranked him alongside Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ambrose Bierce has received more than 2,187,196 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Ambrose Bierce is the 861st most popular writer (down from 801st in 2019), the 959th most popular biography from United States (down from 935th in 2019) and the 89th most popular American Writer.

Ambrose Bierce was an American journalist, short story writer, and satirist. His most famous work is the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge."

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  • 62.93

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  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The monk and the hangman's daughter
1892
The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce
1989
The Devil's Dictionary
1940
In the Midst of Life
1898
The collected works of Ambrose Bierce ..
1909
Cobwebs from an Empty Skull
2005

Page views of Ambrose Bierces by language

Over the past year Ambrose Bierce has had the most page views in the with 262,997 views, followed by Spanish (33,715), and Russian (24,600). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Serbian (1,033.04%), Norwegian (Nynorsk) (513.98%), and Bashkir (51.79%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ambrose Bierce ranks 861 out of 7,302. Before him are Philippe Ariès, Jan Neruda, Ibn al-Jawzi, Ernesto Sabato, Iris Murdoch, and John Fante. After him are Philostratus, Peter Weiss, Frederick Forsyth, Aziz Nesin, Wilkie Collins, and Bernard-Henri Lévy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1842, Ambrose Bierce ranks 21. Before him are Hermann Cohen, Arrigo Boito, Georg Brandes, Vasily Vereshchagin, Giovanni Giolitti, and James Dewar. After him are Sophus Lie, Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, Carl von Linde, Osborne Reynolds, Édouard Lucas, and Arkhip Kuindzhi. Among people deceased in 1914, Ambrose Bierce ranks 19. Before him are Ismail Gaspirali, Eugen Böhm von Bawerk, August Weismann, August Macke, Georges Picquart, and Eduard Suess. After him are Maximilian von Spee, Alexander Samsonov, Alphonse Bertillon, Charles Péguy, Alfred Thayer Mahan, and Alain-Fournier.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ambrose Bierce ranks 959 out of 20,380. Before him are Jane Wyman (1917), Michael Cimino (1939), Kim Kardashian (1980), Condoleezza Rice (1954), Myrtle Corbin (1868), and John Fante (1909). After him are Steve Reich (1936), Melanie Griffith (1957), Arthur Kornberg (1918), Geena Davis (1956), Barbara Stanwyck (1907), and Mickey Rooney (1920).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Ambrose Bierce ranks 89. Before him are Raymond Carver (1938), Leon Uris (1924), Maya Angelou (1928), Daniel Keyes (1927), Neale Donald Walsch (1943), and John Fante (1909). After him are Dashiell Hammett (1894), Joseph Campbell (1904), Marilyn vos Savant (1946), Cormac McCarthy (1933), Daniel Goleman (1946), and Roger Zelazny (1937).

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