Henry Lewis Mencken

Born in September 12, 1880 / Died in January 29, 1956 / United States / English

Bibliography

Other info : Career

George Bernard Shaw: His Plays (1905)
The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1907)
The Gist of Nietzsche (1910)
Men versus the Man: a Correspondence between Robert Rives La Monte, Socialist and H. L. Mencken, Individualist (1910)
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)
Prejudices (1919–27)
- First Series (1919)
- Second Series (1920)
- Third Series (1922)
- Fourth Series (1924)
- Fifth Series (1926)
- Sixth Series (1927)
- Selected Prejudices (1927)
Notes on Democracy (1926)
Menckeneana: A Schimpflexikon (1928) - Editor
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 from Ancient and Modern Sources (1942)
Heathen Days, 1890–1936 (1943)
Christmas Story (1944)
The American Language, Supplement I (1945)
The American Language, Supplement II (1948)
A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

Posthumous collections

Minority Report (1956)
On Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe (1956)
The American Scene (1965) (Huntington Cairns, ed).
The Bathtub Hoax and Blasts & Bravos from the Chicago Tribune (1958)
A Gang of Pecksniffs: And Other Comments on Newspaper Publishers, Editors and Reporters (1975) (Theo Lippman Jr., ed.)
The Impossible H. L. Mencken: A Selection Of His Best Newspaper Stories (1991) (Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, ed).
My Life As Author and Editor (1992) (Jonathan Yardley, ed).
A Second Mencken Chrestomathy (1994)
Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work (1996)
A Religious Orgy in Tennessee A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial (2006) (Melville House Publishing).

Chapbooks, pamphlets, and notable essays