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Henry Louis Mencken(1880-1956)(America) His life His Works His style His life He was born and spent most of his life in the city of Baltimore, Maryland. He was the son of German immigrant parents. He completed high school but did not attend university, only graduated from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute at 16. He became a reporter on the Baltimore Morning Herald. 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 a writer. marriage When he was 50(in 1930), Mencken m