He began his writing career in San Francisco working for a newspaper, and he published his first sto
He began his writing career in San Francisco working for a newspaper, and he published his first story, "The Haunted Valley," in the Overland Magazine. The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes is actually an imagining of this man's last months. In his seventies, he disappeared across the Mexican border after revisiting the Civil War battlefields of his youth in his Collected Works. His second story collection was Can Such Things Be?, and his first was In the Midst of Life, which included a famous story that details the pre-execution dream of Peyton Farquhar. FTP, name this author of "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" and The Devil's Dictionary.
He began his writing career in San Francisco working for a newspaper, and he published his first story, "The Haunted Valley," in the Overland Magazine.
Ambrose Bierce