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A BIERCE CHRONOLOGY
read HERE
click to enlargeThis is the last known photograph of Ambrose Bierce taken in June 1913 before his disappearance in Mexico six months later. It's in the collection of the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.
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My Quest to Find the Birthplace of
Ambrose Bierce
Historian Margaret Parker explains how she resolved her skepticism over where Bierce's was born in Ohio [clue: it wasn't Akron] Read HERE
Damper on First Major Tribute To Bierce
(It Poured)
Rain forced the slender crowd inside, as the Ohio Bicentennial Commission dedicated in 2003 a historic marker to Ambrose Bierce, first major formal recognition of Bierce in the country. A local historical society in Meigs County, place of Bierce's birth, has also erected in honor of the bard a plaque, which hangs in Ohio's oldest standing courthouse. Read here.
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Photo by Billi Bentley. Click to enlarge
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AMBROSE BIERCE ALLEY
Photo-essay by Don Swaim
A neglected, graffiti-blighted San Francisco alley is named after Bierce. Read here.
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FINAL BIERCE HOME ON NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES
 click to enlargeThe Olympia Apartments, 1368 Euclid Street, NW, at 14th Street, in the Columbia Heights section of Washington, DC, won the Mayor's award for Excellence in Design in 2005. Bierce lived in the apartments, still a rental building, from at least December 16, 1901 through October 3, 1913. History Matters, founded in 1999, helped to nominate the building to the National Register of Historic Places. A Washington Times reporter, who interviewed Bierce in August 1902, describes his apartment as "hung and carpeted in red and containing a Turkish couch piled high with pillows, a table full of interesting books, and a quaint little sideboard filled with a mixture of curious glasses, decanters, and a chafing dish." George Horton, an acquaintance, said that Bierce held Sunday morning breakfasts in his apartment for "literary and brain workers," and served coffee made in a peculiar pot shaped like a melon.
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Home Again in Indiana
Ambrose Bierce may have been born in Ohio, but he and his family left their mark in northern Indiana. For a look at the homes in which they lived go to Bierce Family Homes in Indiana by clicking the headline above.
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Walnut Creek, Indiana
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