Mencken on Mencken
Subtitle: a new collection of autobiographical writings
By: edited by S.T. Joshi
Contributors: Joshi, S. T., 1958-
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Baton Rouge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780807135921
Description: Perhaps America's foremost literary stylist and most mordant wit, Mencken's most engaging writing told about his own life and experiences. In Mencken on Mencken, veteran Mencken editor and scholar S. T. Joshi has assembled a hefty collection of the best of Mencken's autobiographical pieces that have not appeared previously in book form. These forty-four selections cover a wide variety of topics ranging from incidents from Mencken's everyday life to reflections on friends and colleagues to his careers as author, journalist, and editor, to his travels abroad.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.