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Henry Louis Mencken
(1880–1956)
 

American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Known as the "Sage of Baltimore"; regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century

Henry Louis Mencken

Works

Editor

Books

Posthumous collections

  • Minority Report (1956)
  • On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe (1956)
  • Cairns, Huntington, ed. (1965), The American Scene .
  • The Bathtub Hoax and Blasts & Bravos from the Chicago Tribune (1958)
  • Lippman, Theo jr, ed. (1975), A Gang of Pecksniffs: And Other Comments on Newspaper Publishers, Editors and Reporters .
  • Rodgers, Marion Elizabeth, ed. (1991), The Impossible HL Mencken: A Selection of His Best Newspaper Stories .
  • Yardley, Jonathan, ed. (1992), My Life As Author and Editor .
  • A Second Mencken Chrestomathy (1994)
  • Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work (1996)
  • A Religious Orgy in Tennessee: A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial, Melville House Publishing, 2006 .

Chapbooks, pamphlets, and notable essays

Columns

  • "Gamalielese" Baltimore Evening Sun, March 7, 1921
  • "A Short View of Gamalielese" The Nation, April 27, 1921 (external scan)
  • "Gamalielese Again" New York Times, September 9, 1921
  • "The American Language", in The Bookman (9 June, 1921), book review of Gilbert M. Tucker's American English (external scan)

Translations

Works about Mencken


Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.

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