{"product_id":"my-life-as-author-and-editor-9780679741022","title":"My Life as Author and Editor","description":"H. L. Mencken stipulated that this memoir remain sealed in a vault for thirty-five years after his death. For good reason: \u003ci\u003eMy Life as Author and Editor\u003c\/i\u003e is so telling and uproariously opinionated that it might have provoked a storm of libel suits. As he recounts his career as a critic, essayist, and editor of the ground-breaking magazine \u003ci\u003eSmart Set\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-230982\"\u003eH. L. Mencken\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Villard Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/19\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 484\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.58h x 5.60w x 1.25d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679741022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 067974102X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO007000\"\u003eLiterary Figures\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO025000\"\u003eEditors, Journalists, Publishers\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-BIO\"\u003eBiography \u0026amp; Autobiography\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-BIO026000\"\u003ePersonal Memoirs\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eH. L. Mencken\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Baltimore in 1880 and died there in 1956. He began his long career as a journalist, critic, and philologist on the \u003ci\u003eBaltimore Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e in 1899. In 1906 he joined the staff of the \u003ci\u003eBaltimore Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, thus beginning an association that lasted until a few years before his death. He was coeditor of the \u003ci\u003eSmart Set \u003c\/i\u003ewith George Jean Nathan from 1908 to 1923, and with Nathan he founded \u003ci\u003eThe American Mercury\u003c\/i\u003e, a magazine of which he was sole editor from 1925 to 1933. He was the author of many books, most notably\u003ci\u003e The American Language, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ePrejudices\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHappy Days\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNewspaper Days\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHeathen Days\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMinority Report\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Villard Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43832792154251,"sku":"9780679741022","price":26.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/5100\/7115\/files\/img_cdbff321-c236-4537-af65-0bdedc7feb56.jpg?v=1755622966","url":"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/my-life-as-author-and-editor-9780679741022","provider":"CA Corrections Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}