Author:Henry Louis Mencken

Henry Louis Mencken
(1880–1956)

Henry Louis Mencken

Works

Editor

• The American Mercury
• Black Mask
• The Smart Set: a magazine of cleverness, 1914-1923
• Little Eyolf; newly tr. from the definitive Dano-Norwegian text by Henrik Ibsen, 1909 external source

Books

• George Bernard Shaw: His Plays (1905) (start transcription) external source
• The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1907) (start transcription) external source
• The Gist of Nietzsche (1910) external source
• What You Ought to Know about your Baby (Ghostwriter for Leonard K. Hirshberg) (1910) external source
• Men versus the Man: a Correspondence between Robert Rives La Monte, Socialist and H. L. Mencken, Individualist (1910) (start transcription) external source
• Europe After 8:15 (1914)
• A Book of Burlesques (1916) (transcription project)
• A Little Book in C Major (1916) (start transcription) external source
• A Book of Prefaces (1917) (start transcription) external source
• In Defense of Women (1917) (start transcription) external source
• Damn! A Book of Calumny (1918) (start transcription) external source
• The American Language (1919) (First edition, Second Edition, Third edition) external source
• Prejudices (1919–27)
  • Prejudices: First Series (1919) (start transcription) external source
  • Prejudices: Second Series (1920) (start transcription) external source
  • Prejudices: Third Series (1922)
  • Fourth Series (1924)
  • Fifth Series (1926)
  • Sixth Series (1927, still under copyright)
  • Selected Prejudices (1927)
• Heliogabalus (A Buffoonery in Three Acts) (1920) (co-authored with George Jean Nathan)
• The American Credo (1920) (start transcription) external source
• The Borzoi 1920: being a sort of record of five years' publishing external source
• 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)
• Cairns, Huntington, ed. (1965), The American Scene. .
• The Bathtub Hoax and Blasts & Bravos from the Chicago Tribune (1958)
• Lippman, Theo jr, ed. (1975), A Gang of Pecksniffs: And Other Comments on Newspaper Publishers, Editors and Reporters. .
• Rodgers, Marion Elizabeth, ed. (1991), The Impossible HL Mencken: A Selection of His Best Newspaper Stories. .
• Yardley, Jonathan, ed. (1992), My Life As Author and Editor. .
• 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, Melville House Publishing, 2006. .

Chapbooks, pamphlets, and notable essays

• Ventures into Verse (1903) external source
• The Artist: A Drama Without Words (1912) (transcription project)
• A Note to Authors external source
• The Creed of a Novelist (1916)
• A Neglected Anniversary (1917; aka "The Bathtub Hoax")
• The Sahara of the Bozart (1920)
• A personal word, 1921 short work (start transcription) external source
• Suggestions to our visitors, 1922 external source
• The Hills of Zion (1925)
• The Libido for the Ugly (1927)

Columns

• "Gamalielese" Baltimore Evening Sun, March 7, 1921
• "A Short View of Gamalielese" The Nation, April 27, 1921 (external scan)
• "Gamalielese Again" New York Times, September 9, 1921
• "The American Language", in The Bookman (9 June, 1921), book review of Gilbert M. Tucker's American English (external scan)

Translations

• The Antichrist by Friedrich Nietzsche external source

Works about Mencken

• "H. L. Mencken as Liberator" (1926), an essay by Stuart Pratt Sherman
• Pistols for Two by Owen Hatteras (1917) (start transcription) external source
• H.L. Mencken by Burton Rascoe and Vincent O'Sullivan, 1920 (start transcription) external source