The short story, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge, reveals the death of Farquhar at the end of the story. This story was written by Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce, an American author born in Ohio, 1842. He fought in the American Civil War and this experience impacted heavily on his writing. He ended up as a journalist after the war. This short story is his most famous and well-received work. It was written in 1866 and first published in a collection of short stories called Tales of Soldiers and Civilians.