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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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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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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Mencken, H. L. (1880-1956)
Mencken, Henry Louis H.l.
Henry Louis Mencken
H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken