When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

Rene Descartes, 1596 – 1650
H. L. Mencken biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of H. L. Mencken

Author Name:

H. L. Mencken

Born As:

Henry Louis Mencken

Other Names:

H. L. Mencken.

Born:

12 Sep 1880

Died:

29 Jan 1956




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Journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, critic of American life and culture                          
Selected Works:

George Bernard Shaw: His Plays - 1905
The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche - 1907
The Artist: A Drama Without Words - 1912
A Book of Burlesques - 1916
A Little Book in C Major - 1916
The Creed of a Novelist - 1916
Pistols for Two - 1917
A Book of Prefaces - 1917
In Defense of Women - 1917
Damn! A Book of Calumny - 1918
The American Language - 1919

Prejudices - 1919–27
First Series - 1919
Second Series - 1920
Third Series - 1922
Fourth Series - 1924
Fifth Series - 1926
Sixth Series - 1927
Selected Prejudices - 1927

The Hills of Zion - 1925
Notes on Democracy - 1926
Libido for the Ugly - 1927
Menckeneana: A Schimpflexikon - ed - 1928
On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe - 1920-1936
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
Heathen Days, 1890–1936 - 1943
A Mencken Chrestomathy - 1948
Minority Report - 1956
The American Scene - 1965

The Impossible H. L. Mencken: A Selection Of His Best Newspaper Stories - Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, editor - 1091
My Life As Author and Editor - Jonathan Yardley, editor - 1992
A Second Chrestomathy - 1994
 A Religious Orgy in Tennessee  - A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial - 2007                          
Mother 
Father August Mencken
Wife Sara Haardt                           
                          
Instead of arguing that one race or group was superior to another, Mencken believed that every community — whether the community of train porters, blacks, newspapermen, or artists — produced a few people of clear superiority. He considered groupings on a par with hierarchies, which led to a kind of natural elitism and natural aristocracy. "Superior" individuals, in Mencken's view, were those wrongly oppressed and disdained by their own communities, but nevertheless distinguished by their will and personal achievement — not by race or birth. Based on his achievement and work ethic, Mencken considered himself a member of this group.