Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Oh, The Oh, Welcome to another episode from 100 thousand one classic short stories and tales.

Followers of our show know for a fact that many of the best stories come from men and women

who lived the life that they wrote about.

For instance, Jack London was there in the Klondike for the Alaskan Gold Rush when he wrote

our archived episode to build a fire. Brett Hart lived in the gold mining towns of California

when he wrote,

The Luck of Roaring Camp

and Louisa May Alcott

was working as a nurse in Washington, D.C. during the Civil War, which inspired

her story, My Red Cap, also a part of our archives here at 1001 Classic Short Stories and Tales.

Ambrose Bierce is another writer from that mold.

His life is a story in itself.

Now to Ambrose Beers.

Beers was born in the log cabin at Horse Cave Creek in Miggs County, Ohio on June 24,

1842, to Marcus Aurelius Bierce and Laura Sherwood Bierce.

His mother was a descendant of William Bradford, who we all remember was the pilgrim leader who brought the logic of the harder you work the more you will benefit to the Plymouth Massachusetts settlers after their early system of only half of his work but all of us benefit system which

failed miserably. That's a great story in itself. Ambrose was the tenth of thirteen children whose father gave all

names beginning with the letter A in order of birth. The Bierce siblings were Abigail, Amelia, Anne, Addison, Aurelius, Augustus, Almeida, Andrew, Albert, and Ambrose.

His parents were a poor but literary couple who instilled in him a deep love for books and writing.

Beers grew up in Kaskyusco County, Indiana, attending high school at the county seat Warsaw.

He left home at 15 to become a printer's devil at a small Ohio newspaper.

At the outset of the American Civil War, Beersen listed in the Union Army's 9th Indiana infantry.

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