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Mencken

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Mencken
H(enry) L(ouis). 1880--1956, US journalist and literary critic, noted for The American Language (1919): editor of the Smart Set and the American Mercury, which he founded (1924)


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Joshi includes a condensed list of books, including critical studies, autobiographies, and treatises, as well as a list book reviews and interviews Mencken gave during his lifetime.
And it was as a self-made philologist that Mencken had his greatest success, cataloging in The American Language the fertile development of New World English.
Mencken Dissident Books PO Box 20547, New York, NY 10021-0070 9780977378814, $15.
 
 
 
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