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H.L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken was born in Baltimore in 1880 and died there in 1956. He began his long career as a journalist, critic, and philologist on the Baltimore Morning Herald in 1899. In 1906 he joined the staff of the Baltimore Sun, thus beginning an association that lasted until a few years before his death. He was coeditor of the Smart Set with George Jean Nathan from 1908 to 1923, and with Nathan he founded The American Mercury, a magazine of which he was sole editor from 1925 to 1933. He was the author of many books, most notably The American Language, Prejudices, Happy Days, Newspaper Days, Heathen Days, and Minority Report.
Minority Report
Notes on Democracy
Happy Days
Heathen Days
Newspaper Days
Treatise on the Gods
Second Mencken Chrestomathy
American Language Supplement 2
American Language Supplement 1
Diary of H. L. Mencken
American Language
My Life as Author and Editor
The Vintage Mencken
A Mencken Chrestomathy

Books

Minority Report
Notes on Democracy
Happy Days
Heathen Days
Newspaper Days
Treatise on the Gods
Second Mencken Chrestomathy
American Language Supplement 2
American Language Supplement 1
Diary of H. L. Mencken
American Language
My Life as Author and Editor
The Vintage Mencken
A Mencken Chrestomathy

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