Ambrosius Bierce
Ambrosius Bierce, vulgo Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, fuit scriptor comicus Americanus et miles exercitus foederalis in bello civili Americano, natus in Meigs comitatu in Ohio 24 Iunii 1842, mortuus in Mexico fere anno 1914.

Notus est opere magno  The Devil's Dictionary, in quo inveniuntur definitiones verborum vulgarium cynicae et satiricae, sicut:

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Scripta 
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Libri 
 Cobwebs from an Empty Skull (1874)
 Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (etiam notus titulo In the Midst of Life) (1891) 
 The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter (1892)
 Can Such Things Be? (1893)
 Fantastic Fables (1899)
 The Devil's Dictionary (1911) (primum editus sub nomine The Cynic's Word Book, 1906)
 Collected Works (1909)
 Write It Right (1909)
 A Horseman in the Sky, A Watcher by the Dead, The Man and the Snake (1920)

Fabellae 
Secundum annum quo publicati
 The Haunted Valley (1871)
 An Inhabitant of Carcosa (1887)		
 One of the Missing (1888)		
 The Boarded Window (1891)		
 Chickamauga (1891)		
 The Eyes of the Panther (1891)		
 Haita the Shepherd (1891)		
 The Man and the Snake (1891)		
 The Middle Toe of the Right Foot (1891)		
 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (1891)		
 The Suitable Surroundings (1891)		
 A Tough Tussle (1891)		
 A Watcher by the Dead (1891)		
 An Adventure at Brownville (1893)		
 A Baby Tramp (1893)		
 Bodies of the Dead (1893)		
 The Death of Halpin Frayser (1893)		
 The Famous Gilson Bequest (1893)		
 John Bartine's Watch (1893)		
 The Night-Doings at 'Deadman's' (1893)		
 A Psychological Shipwreck (1893)		
 The Realm of the Unreal (1893)		
 The Secret of Macarger's Gulch (1893)		
 The Damned Thing (1894)		
 A Vine on a House (1905)		
 The Moonlit Road (1907)

 Beyond the Wall (1909)		
 A Diagnosis of Death (1909)		
 A Jug of Syrup (1909)		
 Moxon's Master (1909)		
 Staley Fleming's Hallucination (1909)		
 The Stranger (1909)		
 The Way of Ghosts (1909)		
 The Affair at Coulter's Notch		
 An Affair of Outposts		
 The Applicant		
 The Baptism of Dobsho		
 A Bottomless Grave		
 The City of the Gone Away		
 The Coup de Grace		
 Curried Cow		
 The Failure of Hope and Wandel		
 George Thurston		
 A Holy Terror		
 A Horseman in the Sky		
 The Hypnotist		
 An Imperfect Conflagration		
 The Ingenious Patriot		
 John Mortonson's Funeral		
 Jupiter Doke, Brigadier-General		
 Killed at Resaca		
 A Lady from Redhorse

 The Little Story		
 The Major's Tale		
 The Man Out of the Nose		
 The Mocking-Bird		
 The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter		
 Mr Swiddler's Flip-Flap		
 My Favourite Murder		
 Mysterious Disappearances
 Oil of Dog		
 One Kind of Officer		
 One of Twins		
 One Officer, One Man		
 One Summer Night		
 Parker Adderson, Philosopher		
 Perry Chumly's Eclipse		
 A Providential Intimation		
 The Race at Left Bower		
 A Resumed Identity		
 A Revolt of the Gods		
 Some Haunted Houses		
 A Son of the Gods		
 The Story of a Conscience		
 The Tail of the Sphinx		
 Visions of the Night		
 The Widower Turmore

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 Notae 

Bibliographia
 Carey McWilliams, Ambrose Bierce: A Biography, 1929 (reprinted 1967), Archon Books.
 Richard O'Connor, Ambrose Bierce:  a Biography'', with illustrations, Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1967.

Nexus externi
 Poemata apud PoetryFoundation.org
 Societas appreciationis
 Ambrosio Bierce Coeptum

Nati 1842
Mortui 1914
Agnostici Civitatum Foederatarum
Auctores Anglici
Poetae Civitatum Foederatarum
Scriptores Civitatum Foederatarum
Lexicographi