IN THE summer of 1948, H. L. Mencken was within two years of his Biblical allotment. As a lifelong hypochondriac he was more aware of its coming, as a kind of I) Day, than most men of sixty-eight; and ...

Seventy years ago, one of the most influential American journalists and critics was silenced forever. H.L. Mencken suffered a massive stroke in 1948 that left him unable to write, the thing he did ...

In 1909, H.L. Mencken and Robert Rives La Monte exchanged a series of letters, which comprised a debate on socialism. The following year, they published the correspondence in a book called Men Vs. the ...

It’s a testament to the caustic fluid in H.L. Mencken’s inkwell that critics continue to repeat his aphorisms about the stupidity of boobus Americanus and the insanity of trusting him to govern ...

The famous journalist H.L. Mencken was convinced that Christianity was full of “imbecilities.” He believed that no intelligent person could believe a word of it, any more than an educated person could ...

As a student, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers was intending to write a master’s thesis on the poetry of T. S. Eliot, when she stumbled upon a box of letters between H. L. Mencken and his wife, Sara, at the ...

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BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore home where renowned journalist H.L. Mencken lived for decades before his death is getting a $1.5 million facelift. The Sun reports that contractors expect to complete ...