The Last of the Menckenians: Struggling with an American Iconoclast
Michael Downs considers the troubled state of the institution that preserves the work of H. L. Mencken.
Michael Downs is a journalist and author of three books, including most recently a novel, The Strange and True Tale of Horace Wells, Surgeon Dentist (2018). He co-wrote with Jim Hock Hollywood’s Team: Grit, Glamour, and the 1950s Los Angeles Rams (2016). His awards include a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Fulbright scholarship to study and work in Kraków, Poland. He directs the graduate program in professional writing at Towson University.
Michael Downs considers the troubled state of the institution that preserves the work of H. L. Mencken.