The H. L. Mencken Page

( 1880-1956 )

Major Works
Mencken is anthologized in The American Scene: A Reader. Selected and edited by Huntington Cairns. Knopf, 1965. See also The Vintage Mencken. Gathered by Alistair Cooke. Vintage, 1955

Ventures into Verse ( 1903 ).
The Artist ( 1912 ).
Prejudices: First Series ( 1919 ).
The American Language ( 1919; Revised, 1921, 1923, 1936 ).
Heliogabalus ( 1920, with George Jean Nathan ).
Prejudices: Second Series ( 1920 ).
Prejudices: Third Series ( 1922 ).
Prejudices: Fourth Series ( 1924 ).
Notes on Democracy ( 1926 ).
Prejudices: Fifth Series ( 1926 ).
Prejudices: Sixth Series ( 1927 ).
Treatise on the Gods ( 1930 ).
Making a President ( 1932 ).
Treatise on Right and Wrong ( 1934 ).
Happy Days, 1880-1892 ( 1940 ).
Newspaper Days, 1899-1906 ( 1941 ).
A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles ( 1942 ).
Heathen Days, 1890-1936 ( 1943 ).
The American Language: Supplement One ( 1945 ).
The American Language: Supplement Two ( 1948 ).
The Mencken Chrestomathy ( 1949 ). Edited and annotated by Mencken himself.
Minority Report: H. L. Mencken's Notebooks ( 1956 ).
A Bathtub Hoax and Other Blasts and Bravos ( 1958 ).
Letters of H. L. Mencken. Selected and annotated by Guy J. Forgue. Knopf, 1961.
The Diary of H. L. Mencken Edited by Charles A. Fecher. Knopf, 1989.
My Life as Author and Editor. Edited and with an introduction by Jonathan Yardley. Knopf, 1992. Mencken's autobiography, suppressed for thirty-five years.
About Mencken
Fred Hobson, Mencken: A Life. Random House, 1994.
William Manchester, Disturber of the Peace: The Life of H. L. Mencken. Harper, 1950.
A Mencken Page. Links.
The Mencken Collection
Mencken Society Home Page

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