Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English...

The H. L. Mencken House was the home of Baltimore Sun journalist and author Henry Louis Mencken, who lived here from 1883 until his death in 1956. The...

Gene Kelly as E. K. Hornbeck of the Baltimore Herald (patterned after Henry L. Mencken) Florence Eldridge as Sarah Brady (patterned after Mary Baird Bryan)...

(1858–1925). Their first child, Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken, was born there in Baltimore in 1880 and their second, August Mencken Jr., was born in 1889. History...

published in 1919, is a book written by H. L. Mencken about the English language as spoken in the United States. Mencken was inspired by "the argot of the colored...

A Book of Prefaces is H. L. Mencken's 1917 collection of essays criticizing American culture, authors, and movements. Mencken described the work as "[My]...

magazine published from 1924 to 1981. It was founded as the brainchild of H. L. Mencken and drama critic George Jean Nathan. The magazine featured writing by...

easily classified as false etymologies, or possibly folk etymologies. H. L. Mencken, in The American Language, lists serious candidates and "a few of the...

and the Prostitute Fatale. In: Theatre Survey 44 (2003), pp. 43-67. Henry L. Mencken: Preface. In:Blanchette and the Escape. Two Plays by Brieux. Boston...

George Bernard Shaw: His Plays (1905) is H. L. Mencken's interpretation of G. Bernard Shaw's plays, in which Mencken overwhelmingly embraced the man who was...