" For 10 points, name this author of a work once called The Cynic's Word Book, The Devil's Dictionary.
One of this author's works includes quotations from such invented figures as Father Gassalasca Jape, while one of his short stories sees a deaf-mute boy encounter wounded soldiers returning from the title battle, after which he finds his house aflame. This author of "Chickamauga" wrote about Peyton Farquahar, who imagines escaping through the woods to his family only to realize he's been hanged by Union troops in "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge." For 10 points, name this author of a work once called The Cynic's Word Book, The Devil's Dictionary.
One of this author's works includes quotations from such invented figures as Father Gassalasca Jape, while one of his short stories sees a deaf-mute boy encounter wounded soldiers returning from the title battle, after which he finds his house aflame.
Ambrose Gwinnett {Bierce}