This reference makes significant literary documents accessible to students, scholars, and nonacademic readers. It supplements the regular DLB volumes, thus expanding the biographical and critical documents on which those essays are based. The volume assembles, in separate chapters, documents related to Mencken's most notable careers: man of letters, journalist, historian of language, libertarian, pundit, magazine editor, and antipuritan literary critic. The final chapter deals with his lengthy posthumous career. Various kinds of materials have been gathered, some of them previously unpublished, and most not available to the general reader. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)