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Short Bio/Highlights
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Short Storyist supreme
Literary editor and columnist
San Francisco’s ‘tastemaker’ - went to NY
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Connection to Miller
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Friend and colleague, helped build The Abbey
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Works
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Quotes by
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https://www.azquotes.com/author/1387-Ambrose_Bierce
"In impugning Mr. Miller's veracity, or rather, in plainly declaring that he has none, I should be sorry to be understood as attributing a graver moral delinquency than he really has. He cannot, or will not, tell the truth, but he never tells a malicious or thrifty falsehood."
"In impugning Mr. Miller’s veracity, or, rather, in plainly declaring that he has none, I should be sorry to be understood as attributing a graver moral delinquency than he really has. He cannot, or will not, tell the truth, but never tells a malicious or thrifty falsehood. From his incursions into the realm of romance he returns with clean and empty hands. Excepting for his vanity and inveracity he is an honorable and high-minded man. That he is a poet of high rank is so well understood that I have no intention of reviewing here those of his poems which, by preserving them in this book, he declares to be his own choice from among the much more that he has written and published. Despite his prolixity, his tiresome repetitions, his frequent hyperbole and more frequent unnaturalness; despite, too, the general thinness of his thought, Mr. Miller has, in my judgment, the greatest natural gift of song of any American except Poe."
(Considering that Bierce as a critic was famous for the vigourous verbal flaying he could deal out to those he thought deserved it, I find the remarks above very even-handed and even generous. —DGDriscoll
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Quotes about
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Notes
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https://history.howstuffworks.com/historical-figures/mysterious-disappearance-ambrose-bierce.htm
