H. L. Mencken at a Glance
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.
Mencken is known for writing The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States, and for his satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he named the "Monkey" trial.
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- Works by H. L. Mencken at Project Gutenberg
- Works by H. L. Mencken at Project Gutenberg
- The Scopes Trial
- The Scopes TrialMalone the Victor, Even Though Court
Sides with Opponents, Says Mencken
by H.L. Mencken
Index: Historical Writings
(Mencken)Home to Positive Atheism
(The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 17, 1925) Dayton, Tenn., July 17. -- Though the court decided against him this
morning, and the testim - Home Page: Mencken Society
- Promotes the reading of the works of Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956), the Sage of Baltimore, American author, critic, newspaper man and iconoclast.
- The H. L. Mencken Page - A Mencken Cornucopia - guide to H. L. Mencken resources on the Web
- Henry Louis Mencken (1880 - 1956) by
Gibbons Burke The most prominent newspaperman, book reviewer, and political commentator of his day, Henry Louis Mencken was a libertarian before the word came into usage. His prose is as clear as an azure sky, and his rhetoric as deadly as a rifle shot. Frequ
Mencken's Creed
I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious.
I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war upon liberty...
I believe that the evidence for immortality is no better than the evidence of witches, and deserves no more respect.
I believe in the complete freedom of thought and speech...
I believe in the capacity of man to conquer his world, and to find out what it is made of, and how it is run.
I believe in the reality of progress.
I - But the whole thing, after all, may be put very simply. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe that it is better to know than be ignorant.
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- The Foreward to the 1991 book
The Impossible H.L. Mencken
edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers - The Ombibulous Mr. Mencken, Bud Johns - Synergistic Press
- an eclectic list of titles that would have 'slipped through the cracks' at larger, more traditional publishing companies.
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- Famed Writer Declares It Will Not Banish Drunks But Aid Others
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