H.L. Mencken

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

• H.L. Mencken quotes

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.