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 · My Life As Author And Editor (Hardcover) Published January 11th by Knopf. Hardcover, pages. Author (s): H.L. Mencken. ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language: www.doorway.ru by: H. L. Mencken stipulated in his will that the manuscript not be read for thirty-five years so that no one mentioned in its pages would still be alive on publication, thus giving the author the Authors: Professor H L Mencken, Henry Louis Mencken. For good reason: My Life as Author and Editor is so telling and uproariously opinionated that is might have provoked a storm of libel suits. As he recounts his career as a critic, essayist, and editor of the ground-breaking magazine Smart Set, Mencken brings us face to face with the literary aristocracy of his day, from the dour womanizer Theodore Dreiser to F. Scott Fitzgerald, drowning his gifts in alcohol/5(6).

‎H. L. Mencken stipulated that this memoir remain sealed in a vault for thirty-five years after his death. For good reason: My Life as Author and Editor is so telling and uproariously opinionated that is might have provoked a storm of libel suits. As he recounts his career as a critic, essayis. After thirty-five years in a sealed vault, the autobiography of America's great social and literary critic now comes to light, edited and with an introduction by Jonathan Yardley. H. L. Mencken stipulated in his will that the manuscript not be read for thirty-five years so that no one mentioned in its pages would still be alive on publication, thus giving the author the freedom to write what. My Life As Author And Editor by Mencken, H.L.. Knopf, Hardcover. Good. in x in x in.

Henry Louis "H.L." Mencken became one of the most influential and prolific journalists in America in the s and '30s, writing about all the shams and con artists in the world. He attacked chiropractors and the Ku Klux Klan, politicians and other journalists. My Life as Author and Editor H. L. Mencken, Author, Jonathan Yardley, Editor Alfred A. Knopf $30 (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. My Life As Author And Editor by Mencken, H.L.. Knopf, Hardcover. Good. in x in x in.