- Halsey.
- Bk. Buyer, 22 (’21): 15 (portrait).
- Bookm. 31 (’10): 117.
- Forum, 39 (’08): 377.
- Ind. 69 (’10): 1085 (portrait).
- Internat. Q. 4 (’01): 289.
- Outlook, 78 (’04): 879 (portrait); 102 (’12): 645 (portrait), 649; 117 (’17): 640. (Lyman Abbott.)
- Putnam’s, 1 (’07): 708 (portrait).
- Spec. 106 (’11): 969; 114 (’15): 686.
H(enry) L(ouis) Mencken—critic, man of letters.
Born at Baltimore, Maryland, 1880, of German ancestry. Graduate of Baltimore Polytechnic, 1896. On the Baltimore Herald, 1903-5, and Baltimore Sun, 1906-17. Became literary critic for The Smart Set, 1908, and (with George Jean Nathan), editor, 1914—. War correspondent in Germany and Russia, 1917. Much interested in music.
Bibliography
- Ventures Into Verse. 1903.
- George Bernard Shaw, His Plays. 1905.
- The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. 1908.
- Men vs. the Man. 1910. (With R. R. LaMonte.)
- The Artist. 1912.
- Europe After 8:15. 1914. (With George Jean Nathan, [q. v.], and Willard Huntingdon Wright.)
- A Book of Burlesques. 1916.
- A Little Book in C Major. 1916.
- A Book of Prefaces. 1917.
- In Defense of Women. 1918.
- Damn: a Book of Calumny. 1918.
- The American Language. 1919. (Revised ed., 1922.)
- Prejudices: First Series. 1919.
- The American Credo; a Contribution toward the Interpretation of the National Mind. 1920. (With George Jean Nathan, [q. v.])
- Prejudices: Second Series. 1920.
- Heliogabalus, a Buffoonery in Three Acts. 1920. (With George Jean Nathan, [q. v.])
- Prejudices: Third Series.
Studies and Reviews
- Hatteras, O. A. J. Pistols for Two. 1917.
- Rascoe, Burton, and Others (Vincent O’Sullivan, [q. v.], and F. C. Henderson). H. L. Mencken. Brief Appreciations and a Bibliography. 1920.
- Ath. 1920, 1: 10.
- Bookm. 41 (’15): 46 (portrait), 56; 53 (’21): 79; 54 (’22): 551 (portrait).
- Cur. Op. 66 (’19): 391 (portrait); 71 (’21): 360.
- Dial, 68 (’20): 267.
- Freeman, 1 (’20): 88.
- Liv. Age, 303 (’19): 798.
- New Repub. 21 (’20): 239; 26 (’21): 191; 27 (’21): 10.
- Little Review, 5 (’18): Jan., p. 10.
- New Statesman, 14 (’20): 748.
Born at Paterson, New Jersey, 1880. A. B., Columbia, 1902. Married Fola La Follette, 1911. Literary editor of La Follette’s Weekly, 1912—.
Bibliography