Henry Louis Mencken ( 12 September 1880 – 29 January 1956 ), better known as H. L. Mencken , was a twentieth-century journalist, satirist, social critic, cynic, and freethinker, known as the "Sage of Baltimore" and the "American Nietzsche ". He is...
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) was an American journalist, editor, critic, and philologist. Though he was not a distinguished stylist, the extraordinary vigor of his expression was memorable. The first American to be widely read as a critic was H. L....
During a career that encompassed several roles and lasted for nearly fifty years, Henry Louis Mencken was above all else a libertarian. He saw freedom of speech as the most valuable attribute of any society, and he insisted, throughout some long and...
During his lifetime H. L. Mencken was called the Great Iconoclast and the Sage of Baltimore, appellations he gained because of his journalistic writing in newspapers and magazines. However, his contributions to American letters were more extensive than...
From the 1920s through the 1950s, H. L. Mencken was one of the best-known and most feared writers in the United States. Professionally, Mencken was a newspaperman (for the Baltimore Evening Sun), a literary and social critic who debunked pompous...
Henry Louis H.l. Mencken Born September 12, 1880 (Baltimore, Maryland) Died January 29, 1956 (Baltimore, Maryland) Writer and editor Henry Louis (H.L.) Mencken was one of the most influential writers and editors of the twentieth century. Although he...
Henry Louis (H. L.) Mencken (September 12, 1880, Baltimore – January 29, 1956, Baltimore, Maryland), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English....
The hero of Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" noted his impact. "So many young men," says Jake Barnes, "get their likes and dislikes from Mencken." Walter Lippmann, in the Saturday Review of Literature in 1926, called H. L. Mencken "the most powerful personal...
MENCKEN A Biography By Fred Hobson. Random House. 626 pp. $35. Martin F. Nolan, an associate editor of the Globe, is a fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He never went to college. A cigar-smoking, beer-guzzling provincial,...
Nearly 6,000 books, photographs and letters by and about H.L. Mencken have been acquired by Johns Hopkins University from the estate of an accountant with a penchant for the curmudgeonly journalist known as the Sage of Baltimore.George H. Thompson began collecting Mencken-related material in 1962...
Today is Thursday, Dec. 28, the 362nd day of 2006. There are three days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:One hundred and fifty years ago, on Dec. 28, 1856, the 28th president of the United States, Thomas Woodrow Wilson, was born in Staunton, Va.On...
