H. L. Mencken
Henry Louis H. L. Mencken was a GermanAmerican journalist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar of American English. Known as the Sage of Baltimore, he is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the twentieth century. As a scholar Mencken is known for The American Language, a multivolume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States. His satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he dubbed the Monkey Trial, also gained him attention. He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians and contemporary movements.
Mencken was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on September 12, 1880. He was the son of August Mencken, Sr., a cigar factory owner of German ancestry. When Henry was three, his family moved into a new home at 1524 Hollins Street facing Union Square park in the Union Square neighborhood of old West Baltimore. Apart from five years of married life, Mencken was to live in that house for the rest of his life.
Source: Wikipedia