bio notes:
born: 6/24/1842
born as: Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
American newspaperman, wit, satirist, and author of sardonic short stories based on themes of death and horror. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
IN late 1913 Bierce, who had joined the army of Pancho Villa in Mexico as an observer, disappeared. He is assumed to have died in early 1914.