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This 4 page paper gives a brief biography of American journalist H.L. Mencken and why he is significant to American letters. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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(1880-1956) was "an American journalist, editor, critic, and philologist." (Henry Louis Mencken biography). He was born in Baltimore, Maryland, September 12, 1880, and educated privately there (Henry Louis Mencken biography).
He graduated from the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute at age 16, and joined the staff of the Baltimore Herald as a reporter (Henry Louis Mencken biography). He advanced rapidly at the
paper, becoming city editor and then editor (Henry Louis Mencken biography). In 1906, Mencken joined an organization called the "Sunpapers," where he remained in various capacities throughout his career
(Henry Louis Mencken biography). This source doesnt define what the Sunpapers are, but we can assume its the Sun newspaper organization, which includes such papers as the Chicago Sun-Times.
His greatest journalistic piece is arguably the work he did on the Scopes trial, which took place in Tennessee in 1925, in which "a high school science instructor was prosecuted
for teaching evolution, contrary to a state law" (Henry Louis Mencken biography). He was also an editor for The Smart Set and the American Mercury (Henry Louis Mencken biography). Menckens
claim to fame is that he is the "progenitor of modern American criticism," though no one follows him as a disciple (Henry Louis Mencken biography). His criticism was skewed by
his attitude toward it, "for he sacrificed discrimination for immediate attention ... and subtleties of statement for buffoonery and bombast" (Henry Louis Mencken biography). His methods may have been aggravating
or silly, but they "gained a wide audience" and "opened the way for the development of criticism" (Henry Louis Mencken biography). Mencken was widely considered to be a misogynist, so
it was a surprise when he married Sara Haardt in 1930 (Henry Louis Mencken biography). Unfortunately, she died five years later; it would have been interesting to see if a
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