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• H. L. Mencken

American Decades:

• Mencken, H. L. 1880-1956 (1920's Media)

Encyclopedia:

• Mencken, H. L. (The Oxford Companion to English Literature)
• The American Language (The Oxford Companion to American Literature)

Calendar of Literary Facts:

• 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
• H. L. Mencken dies

Other titles by H. L. Mencken:

• H. L. Mencken
• Prejudices
• The Diary of H. L Mencken