Salem on History:
American Decades:
- Mencken, H. L. 1880-1956 (1920's Media)
Encyclopedia:
- The American Language (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)
- Mencken, H. L. (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
Calendar of Literary Facts:
- H. L. Mencken dies
- H. L. Mencken publishes A Mencken Chrestomathy
- H. L. Mencken is arrested for selling a copy of The American Mercury to the secretary of the Boston Watch and Ward Society; the offending issue contained the story “Hatrack,” which the Society deemed obscene
- H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan found The American Mercury
- H. L. Mencken publishes Prejudices: First Series and the first edition of his study The American Language
- H. L. Mencken publishes his influential essay on literature “The Sahara of the Bozart” in the New York Evening Mail
- H. L. Mencken publishes A Book of Prefaces
- H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan are named co-editors of The Smart Set, a magazine which brings them to national attention
- H. L. Mencken is born