
Henry Louis “H.L.” Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American writer, critic, and journalist. His most famous works include The American Language and Prejudices.1
Works
- George Bernard Shaw: His Plays (1905)
- The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1907)
- The Gist of Nietzsche (1910)
- What You Ought to Know about your Baby (1910) ghostwritten for Leonard K. Hirshberg
- Men versus the Man: a Correspondence between Robert Rives La Monte, Socialist and H. L. Mencken, Individualist (1910)
- Europe After 8:15 (1914)
- A Book of Burlesques (1916)
- A Little Book in C Major (1916)
- A Book of Prefaces (1917)
- In Defense of Women (1918)
- Damn! A Book of Calumny (1918)
- The American Language (1919)
- Prejudices (1919–27)
- First Series (1919)
- Second Series (1920)
- Third Series (1922)
- Fourth Series (1924)
- Fifth Series (1926)
- Sixth Series (1927)
- Selected Prejudices (1927)
- Heliogabalus (A Buffoonery in Three Acts) (1920)
- The American Credo (1920)
- Notes on Democracy (1926)
- Menckeneana: A Schimpflexikon (1928)
- Treatise on the Gods (1930)
- Making a President (1932)
- Treatise on Right and Wrong (1934)
- Happy Days, 1880–1892 (1940)
- Newspaper Days, 1899–1906 (1941)
- A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources (1942)
- Heathen Days, 1890–1936 (1943)
- Christmas Story (1944)
- The American Language, Supplement I (1945)
- The American Language, Supplement II (1948)
- A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)
- Minority Report (1956)
- On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe (1956)
- The American Scene (1965)
- The Bathtub Hoax and Other Blasts and Bravos from the Chicago Tribune (1958)
- A Gang of Pecksniffs: And Other Comments on Newspaper Publishers, Editors and Reporters (1975)
- The Impossible H.L. Mencken: A Selection of His Best Newspaper Stories (1991)
- My Life As Author and Editor (1992)
- A Second Mencken Chrestomathy (1994)
- Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work (1996)
- A Religious Orgy in Tennessee: A Reporter’s Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial (2006)
See also
External Links
- H.L. Mencken collection at Emory University
- H.L. Mencken collection at Gettysburg College
- H.L. Mencken collection at The University of Chicago
- H.L. Mencken collection at The University of Maryland
- H.L. Mencken collection at Yale University
- H.L. Mencken letters at The Newberry Library
- The Mencken House
- The Mencken Society
- FBI File on Mencken
- Goodreads profile
- Works on Internet Archive
- Works on LibriVox
- Works on Project Gutenberg
- Snopes – Did H. L. Mencken Say the ‘White House Will Be Adorned by a Downright Moron’?
- H.L. Mencken on Find A Grave
References
1. “H.L. Mencken.” Encyclopedia Britannica. Accessed September 2, 2020.