Word: mencken
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...terror of teetotalers and the debunker of American myths, Mencken was the most famous journalist of his time. Known for his biting commentary, the Baltimore-based writer combined a lifelong interest in the uniquely American forms of the English language with an abiding concern about the public issues...
...Diary of H.L. Mencken...
...Mencken's diary--just released this year after decades of languishing, unread, in Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Library--is not really about politics. Or about the writer's craft. Or even about the inner life of the writer himself...
...diary, Mencken tells the story of this group--his interactions with them, their personal foibles, their hypocrisies, and his fascination with all of the above. He recounts anecdotes about his friends and enemies with equal glee--one moment excoriating Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis and F. Scott Fitzgerald as washed-up old drunks, the next extolling their work...