Mencken, H. L. (1880-1956)
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 B...
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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 a...
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Biography EssayDuring 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. Howe...
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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 firs...
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Of German-American descent, Henry Louis Mencken was born on 12 September 1880, in Baltimore, Maryland, where he lived all his life, most of it in the same house. His prosperous, conservative family w...
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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 contri...
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Although he was for nearly two decades America's most powerful and influential literary critic, having become in the early 1920s the first (and, for that matter, last) literary dictator, H. L. Mencken...
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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 s...
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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...
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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 Un...
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"God is either cruel or incompetent.""Common sense is not so common.""The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."These pithy quips from Woody Allen, Voltaire and Steven Wri...
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Today is Friday, Dec. 28, the 362nd day of 2007. There are three days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On Dec. 28, 1917, the New York Evening Mail published "A Neglected Anniversary," ...
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It takes two larger-than-life actors to make "Inherit the Wind" really crackle, and its latest Broadway revival has come up with quite a pair _ Christopher Plummer and Brian Dennehy.The play, a fic...
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Today is Wednesday, Sept. 12, the 255th day of 2007. There are 110 days left in the year. The Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah begins at sunset.Today's Highlight in History:On Sept. 12, 1609, English e...
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Hypocrisy: Propaganda filmmaker Michael Moore is wondering where America's soul has gone. He could get the answer by engaging in a little bit of introspection.Moore is being feted and toasted at th...
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Some Democratic and Republican presidential hopefuls are preaching economic doom and gloom, disappearing middle class, and failing health care industry. What's their solution? The short answer is g...
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Writer Sherwood Anderson learned how to capture authentic American small-town life by training himself to listen and observe. "My own desire is to develop my own sensitiveness to life to the highes...
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The July 7 London bombings were followed by the failed bombings of July 21, and who knows what other surprises between the time these words go to press and the time they appear in print. A poll for...
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Mencken, H. L. (1880-1956)
Mencken, Henry Louis H.l.
Henry Louis Mencken
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Hopkins acquires Mencken collection
