This year marks the centennial of one of the most legendary disappearing acts in the history of literature. Ambrose Bierce was reported to have crossed the border into Mexico at the end of 1913—and was neither seen nor heard from again. Read the details of what we know about Bierce’s disappearance, along with “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (which Kurt Vonnegut called the greatest story in American literature), at our Story of the Week site. (Image: Portrait of Ambrose Bierce by British painter John Herbert Evelyn Partington [1843–1899], who moved to San Francisco in 1889 and whose daughter Blanche received the last known letter sent by Bierce before he disappeared.)
Posted on: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 15:14:49 +0000