Read aloud picture books and look for simile examples and metaphor examples to learn how writers use figurative language to convey meaning. Use these mentor texts to teach writers how to write similes ...

Ambrose Bierce, one of the lone wolves of American letters, was a San Francisco journalist, a sardonic lexicographer, and the author of jarring, brilliant and gruesomely unsentimental stories of ...

"Phantoms of a Blood-Stained Period: The Complete Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce," a book co-edited by Dr. David Klooster of the Hope College English faculty, has just been published by the ...

A hundred years ago this month, the 71-year-old journalist Ambrose Bierce embarked on his last assignment. Abandoning a life of comfortable semi-retirement in Washington DC, he set off for Mexico ...