Mencken, H.L.

Epithet: Editor 'The American Mercury'

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Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore", is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century.

H.L. Mencken was a controversial American journalist in Baltimore, author, editor and influential social critic.

Journalist, of Baltimore, Md.

H. L. Mencken of Baltimore, Md., was a journalist, author, and critic.

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H. L. Mencken was a controversial American journalist in Baltimore, author, editor and influential social critic during the first half of the twentieth century.

Baltimore journalist, critic, and essayist, Mencken became literary editor of THE SMART SET in 1908, and co-edited it with George Jean Nathan from 1914 to 1923. They founded THE AMERICAN MERCURY in 1924, which Mencken continued to edit till 1933. He is best known for the "aggressive iconoclasm of his editorial policies in these magazines" (Oxford Companion to American Literature). He published many books, and his most important work of scholarship is THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE (1919, with later supplements).

Confident, opinionated, and inherently controversial, the complex figure of H.L. Mencken towers over American prose of the early 20th century. Iconoclastic, aggressive, and above all Libertarian, Mencken wrote magnificently about whatever interested him, directing, defining, and helping to create a new American literature. Journalist, critic, and social commentator, he remains the most frequently quoted American writer and our finest humorist since Twain, and his influence on the American psyche and persona is staggering.

Baltimore-based journalist and literary critic.

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H. L. Mencken was a critical but humorous journalist, literary reviewer, and language expert. In 1899 he became a reporter for the Baltimore Morning Herald; beginning in 19006 and continuing throughout much of his life he worked at various intervals for The Baltimore Sun. He was co-editor of The Smart Set, and was co-founder of the American Mercury. Additional publications of his were Prejudices, The American Language, and an autobiographical trilogy.

H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), author and editor, of Baltimore, Md.

H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880-1956), American literary and social critic, journalist, editor, and author.

American journalist, critic, and essayist.

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H.L. Mencken (1880-1956), journalist, author and critic, worked as a reporter and drama critic for the Baltimore Morning Herald from 1899 to 1906. From 1906 to the end of his working career he was at the Baltimore Evening Sun where he wrote the column "Free Lance" in which he expressed his views on literature, politics and society. He was book review editor for the magazine Smart Set from 1908 to 1924 when he started a new magazine, American Mercury, a journal of sociology and politics. He retired from American Mercury in 1933 and concentrated on writing for the Baltimore Sun and encouraging young literary talent. He also wrote books and articles including his classic, The American Language, which he first published in 1918 and continued revising until 1948.

American critic and editor.

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Author and editor.

Author and editor, of Baltimore, Md.

H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880-1956), American literary and social critic, journalist, editor, and author. Born in Baltimore, Mencken began his journalistic career in 1899 at the Baltimore Morning Herald. In 1906, he became an editor and columnist at the Baltimore Sun, and continued writing regularly for the newspaper until World War II. Mencken also co-edited the magazine Smart Set with George Jean Nathan from 1914 to 1923. They then founded another magazine, the American Mercury. Mencken was also an independent writer, best known for The American Language (1919), a guide to American idioms and expressions. He also wrote an autobiographical trilogy in the early 1940s, Happy Days (1940), Newspaper Days (1941), and Heathen Days (1943). Mencken died in his home in Baltimore in 1956.

Biographical note prepared from information found in the Biographical Dictionary of American Newspaper Columnists and World Authors, 1900-1950 .

American journalist, essayist, editor and critic.

Born in 1880, the son of a cigar factory owner of German extraction, Henry Louis Mencken lived his whole life in Baltimore, Maryland. Instead of attending college, Mencken became a reporter for the Baltimore Morning Herald in 1899, and then moved to the Baltimore Sun in 1906, where he continued to contribute until he stopped writing following a stroke in 1948. He was literary critic for the magazine The Smart Set, and from 1924 to 1933 he was editor of the American Mercury. Mencken wrote editorials and opinion pieces, literary criticism, short stories, a novel, but is best remembered for The American Language, a study of how the English language is spoken in the United States, and for his satirical reporting on the Scopes trial. Individualistic, contentious, even pugnacious, Mencken was outspoken in his contempt for many aspects of American society. As a nationally syndicated columnist and book editor, he had a strong influence on the literate and articulate young writers of the 1910s and early 1920s. Mencken married Sara Haardt in 1930; they had no children. He died in 1956.

Biographical Note

H. L. Mencken was a critical but humorous journalist, literary reviewer, and language expert. In 1899 he became a reporter for the Baltimore Morning Herald; beginning in 19006 and continuing throughout much of his life he worked at various intervals for The Baltimore Sun. He was co-editor of The Smart Set, and was co-founder of the American Mercury. Additional publications of his were Prejudices, The American Language, and an autobiographical trilogy.

Henry L. Mencken was a controversialist, humorous journalist, and pungent critic of American life who powerfully influenced U.S. fiction through the 1920s.

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Born in Baltimore in 1880, Mencken became one of the nation's leading journalists and literary critics. He began his career as a newspaperman in Baltimore. Subsequently he became editor of the Smart Set and then editor of The American Mercury. He also wrote many books, including the notable study, The American Language. Mencken died in 1956 in Baltimore.