After returning to the United States he worked for Hearst and wrote a column for the Sunday Examiner.
Following his service for the Union in the Civil War, he went west with a military expedition and eventually became editor of a San Francisco newspaper. During a brief sojourn in London, he published under the pseudonym "Dad Grile" stories from the magazines Figaro and Fun with the title Cobwebs from an Empty Skull. After returning to the United States he worked for Hearst and wrote a column for the Sunday Examiner. He disappeared in Mexico in 1913, after publishing his most famous work, which he originally entitled the Cynic's Workbook. FTP, name this author of the Devil's Dictionary.
Following his service for the Union in the Civil War, he went west with a military expedition and eventually became editor of a San Francisco newspaper.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce