Courtesy The Society to Preserve H.L. Mencken’s Legacy, Inc.
All roads lead to Baltimore, Maryland when tracking down third-generation German-American H.L. Mencken, the “Sage of Baltimore”. Throughout his career as a journalist and social commentator Mencken remained true to his beliefs and exerted considerable influence on American society and culture. Though he was a nationally celebrated writer and editor he was a “homer”, a Baltimorean at heart and his life as a writer and editor centered around his family house, in front of his typewriter. He said, “I have lived in one house in Baltimore for nearly 45 years. It has changed in that time, as I have—but somehow it still remains the same … It is as much a part of me as my two hands. If I had to leave it, I’d be as certainly crippled as if I lost a leg.”
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