Black Mask (magazine)
Black Mask was a pulp magazine first published in April 1920 by the journalist H. L. Mencken and the drama critic George Jean Nathan.
The magazine was one of several money-making publishing ventures to support the prestigious literary magazine "The Smart Set", which Mencken edited, and which had operated at a loss since at least 1917.
Under their editorial hand, the magazine was not exclusively a publisher of crime fiction, offering, according to the magazine, "the best stories available of adventure, the best mystery and detective stories, the best romances, the best love stories, and the best stories of the occult.
" The magazine's first editor was Florence Osborne (credited as F. M. Osborne).
Barry Mask
Barry Mask( born July 25, 1959) is an American politician who served in the Alabama House of Representatives from the 31st district from 2006 to 2013.
Joseph Shaw (editor)
Joseph T." Cap" Shaw( 1874 – 1952) was the editor of" Black Mask" magazine from 1926 to 1936.
Prior to becoming" Black Mask" editor, Shaw had worked as a newspaper reporter and as a soldier in World War I, attaining the rank of captain( Shaw's friends gave him the nickname" Cap").
and even won an Olympic medal for his fencing ability.
and Erle Stanley Gardner.
Chandler greatly admired Shaw's ability to encourage" Black Mask" writers, claiming in a letter," We wrote better for him than we could have written for anybody else".
Despite" Black Mask's" critical and commercial popularity, Shaw was eventually fired from the magazine.
Shaw then worked as a literary agent, though without notable success.
John Mulholland (journalist)
John Mulholland( born 20 November 1962) is an Irish journalist who was the editor of the British Sunday newspaper" The Observer" for 10 years and assistant editor of" The Guardian".
He has worked for most of his career with the Guardian Media Group.
In April 2018, he became the editor of Guardian US.
H. L. Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English.
He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians and contemporary movements.
His satirical reporting on the Scopes Trial, which he dubbed the "Monkey Trial," also gained him attention.
As a scholar, Mencken is known for "The American Language", a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States.
As an admirer of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, he was an outspoken opponent of organized religion, theism, populism, and representative democracy, the latter of which he viewed as systems in which inferior men dominated their superiors.
Mencken was a supporter of scientific progress, and was critical of osteopathic and chiropractic medicine.
He was also an ardent critic of economics.
Mencken opposed the American entry into both World War I and World War II.
His diary indicates that he was a racist and antisemite, who privately used coarse language and slurs to describe various ethnic and racial groups (though he believed it was in poor taste to use such slurs publicly).
Mencken at times seemed to show a genuine enthusiasm for militarism, though never in its American form.
"War is a good thing," he once wrote, "because it is honest, it admits the central fact of human nature ...
A nation too long at peace becomes a sort of gigantic old maid."
His longtime home in the Union Square neighborhood of West Baltimore was turned into a city museum, the H. L. Mencken House.
His papers were distributed among various city and university libraries, with the largest collection held in the Mencken Room at the central branch of Baltimore's Enoch Pratt Free Library.
Marco Roth
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Gerhard Jynge
Gerhard Vilhelm Jynge (1877 – February 21, 1945) was a Norwegian newspaper editor.
He became the editor of "Oplandenes Avis" in 1908 and the sub-editor of "Verdens Gang" in 1911, served as the first editor of "Haugesunds Dagblad" from June 8, 1912 to December 1913, became the editor of "Dagsposten" in Trondheim in 1914, and was the editor of "Aalesunds Avis" from 1917 to 1921.
He became an appellate judge pro tem in Bergen in 1921, and a regular judge in 1928.
He died on February 21, 1945, when the steamship "Austri" was sunk by British aircraft in Bømla Fjord.
Peter Bhatia
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He was previously the editor of" The Oregonian".
Roger Hodge
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He was the editor of" Harper's Magazine" from March 2006 through January 2010.
He was the editor of the" Oxford American" from 2012- 2015.
Ger Colleran
Gerard Colleran is an Irish journalist, the editor of the" Irish Daily Star" from 1999 to 2014, and since 2017 the editor of" Kerry's Eye".
In 2009," Village" listed him as one of Ireland's 100 most influential people.
He is a native of Mayo, County Mayo, grew up in Quin, County Clare, and was educated at the University of London and the University of Limerick.
Prior to his work at the" Daily Star" he was the editor of" The Kerryman".

Question: Where was the editor of magazine Black Mask (Magazine) born?
Answer: Baltimore