The Diary of H. L Mencken (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: H. L. Mencken
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Diary
- Time of Work: 1930-1948
- Setting: Baltimore, with occasional excursions to New York, Washington, and North Carolina
- Genres: Nonfiction, Diary
- Subjects: History, Journalism or journalists, Racism, Music or musicians, World War II, Anti-Semitism, Criticism, Stroke
- Locales: New York, North Carolina, Baltimore, MD, Washington
On November 5, 1930, Henry Louis Mencken, the fifty-year-old “Sage of Baltimore,” began to keep a diary. By the time of his final entry, on November 15, 1948, eight days before the stroke that left him incapable of reading or writing during the final seven years of his life, Mencken’s diary totaled about 2,100 typed, double-spaced pages. Under the terms of his will, the diary was deposited in Baltimore’s Enoch Pratt Free Library, sealed until twenty-five years after his death. It became available to scholars on January 29, 1981, but a label that Mencken affixed to each of the...
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