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In 1888, when H. L. Mencken was eight years old, he wandered into his local newspaper, entranced by the workings of the hand press. The following Christmas he asked for his own small press with a font of type, and he was soon publishing a neighborhood newspaper. A decade later, after six months of working for free, Mencken got his first job at the Baltimore Herald, and he was a real newspaperman for the next fifty years.
Even at nineteen Mencken showed signs of the style and stance that would make him the most famous and feared journalist of his day: "For the $16.43 that he received as a salary yesterday, Mayor Hayes performed duties of such surpassing ease that the average citizen would be willing to discharge them -- with the mayoralty worries excluded -- for 50 cents ... FULL STORY »
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Related authors: Ambrose Bierce, Anita Loos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Theodore Dreiser, Upton Sinclair, Agatha Christie, Edgar Allan Poe, Jack London, James Fenimore Cooper, Joseph Conrad, O. Henry, Ring Lardner, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen Crane
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