- He was a mentor to Alistair Cooke and William Raymond Manchester.
- The character of E.K. Hornbeck in "Inherit the Wind" was modeled after him. The role has been played by, among others, Gene Kelly, Darren McGavin, and Beau Bridges.
- Was the lead reporter at the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial.
- Ernest Hemingway and Walter Lippmann agreed he was the most influential voice of his generation.
- Mencken was an outspoken defender of freedom of conscience and civil rights, and an opponent of persecution, injustice, puritanism, and self-righteousness.
- The address of his family home in Baltimore was 1524 Hollins Street.
- He was both superstitious - regarding such familiar symbols as the number 13 - and a hypochondriac: he befriended many Baltimore physicians and was a frequent visitor to, though not as a frequent patient with serious maladies, the corridors of the city's Johns Hopkins Hospital.
- Edited two magazines in New York with drama critic George Jean Nathan while commuting to and from Baltimore where he kept up his column at the Baltimore Sun. The first magazine was The Smart Set, the second The American Mercury, in which Mencken brought to attention dozens of writers destined for fame.
- The doctor who delivered him charged his parents a flat $10.00 for handling the birth.
- His father owned a cigar factory.
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