高英--Henry Louis Mencken简介

Introduction
• When he was nine years old, he read Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, which he described it as the most stupendous(惊人的) event in his life and He determined to become century journalist satirist, social critic, cynic, freethinker .he is known as the sage of Baltimore. and he is often regard as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century
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Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
Introduction
• Mencken was born in September 12, 1880, When Mencken was three, his family moved into a new home in the Union Square neighborhood of Baltimore(巴尔的摩,美国一座港市).
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• Mencken was the most prominent newspaperman, book reviewer, and political commentator of his day.
• Mencken's writing is endearing because of its wit, its crisp style, and the obvious delight he takes in it.
Main works
Prejudices American Mercury (editing it until 1933) His major work--The American Language (was published in 1919)
Words of Mencken
• It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. • Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.
Introduction
• Mencken’s parents favor the practical over the intellectual, so they focused more on how to trained him to write copy for newspapers and business. This also was to be all of Mencken's formal education in journalism as well as some other subjects, and he never attended college.