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....

After politics, journalism has always been the preferred career of the ambitious but lazy second-rater. American exceptions to mediocrity's leaden mean: From column A, there was Franklin D. Roosevelt. From column B, H.L. Mencken. Although Henry Louis Mencken was a magazine director...

The Skeptic: A Life of H. L Mencken by Terry Teachout HarperCollins [middot ] 2002 [middot ] 349 pages plus notes and index [middot ] $29.95 hardcover Nearly half a century since his death, H. L. Mencken (1880-1956) continues to fascinate....

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...