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My Life As Author And Editor

By H.L. Mencken

Book information

Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year
2011
ISBN
9780307808882
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (2960218 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-09-29 05:44:21
BIO007000BIO025000BIO026000Biography & AutobiographyNonfiction

Description

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, 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. Here, too, are the hacks, poseurs, and bohemian crackpots who flocked around them. Most of all, here is Mencken himself, defying censors and Prohibition agents with equal aplomb in an age when literature was a contact sport.

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