HL Mencken

January 9, 2024
Novelist

Quick Facts

HL Mencken
Full Name HL Mencken
Occupation Novelist
Date Of Birth Sep 12, 1880(1880-09-12)
Age 144
Date Of Death 1956-01-29
Birthplace Baltimore
Country United States
Birth City Maryland
Horoscope Virgo

HL Mencken Biography

Name HL Mencken
Birthday Sep 12
Birth Year 1880
Place Of Birth Baltimore
Home Town Maryland
Birth Country United States
Birth Sign Virgo
Spouse Sara Haardt

HL Mencken is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on September 12, 1880 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. American author who wrote The American Language. This is a study on how English is used in the United States. He was a journalist who worked at The Baltimore Sun and The American Mercury.

He admired He admired Friedrich Nietsche..

In his memoir Happy Days, he recounted his childhood as the son and owner of a Baltimore cigar factory, August Mencken Sr. He married Sara Haardt in 1930.

HL Mencken Net Worth

Net Worth $5 Million
Source Of Income Novelist
House Living in own house.

HL Mencken is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, HL Mencken 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a keen reader as a boy and also a keen student of photography and chemistry. He graduated as class valedictorian from the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute.

He was well-known for his humorous newspaper articles about the Scopes trial. He also became famous for referring to the historical legal battle under the name “The Monkey Trial.”

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Who is HL Mencken Dating?

According to our records, HL Mencken married to Sara Haardt. As of December 1, 2023, HL Mencken’s is not dating anyone.

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HL Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. HL Mencken celebrates birthday on September 12 of every year.

What is H. L. Mencken most famous for?

A self-taught student of American English, Mencken is perhaps best remembered today for The American Language (1919), a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States, and for his satirical reporting on the Scopes “monkey” trial, a term coined by Mencken.

Who was H. L. Mencken quotes?

  • Belief. Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. …
  • Certainty. It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. …
  • Conscience. …
  • Democracy. …
  • Divorce. …
  • Evil. …
  • Fame. …
  • Faults and Weaknesses.

What happened to H. L. Mencken?

Mencken died in his sleep on January 29, 1956. He was interred in Baltimore’s Loudon Park Cemetery.

What is Mencken's Law?

The next day the court ruled in Mencken’s favor, thus giving him victory, as much publicity as he had the year before with his reports from the Scopes trial, and yet another application of Mencken’s Law: “ Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of improving or saving X, A is a scoundrel.

What is HL Mencken fellow?

Teller, H. L. Mencken research fellow, is the smaller, quieter half of Penn & Teller. He and Penn Jillette appear regularly in Las Vegas and cohosted a Showtime series that looked to debunk junk science, scares, and scams with reason and logic.

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