Loos had become a devoted admirer of H. L. Mencken and when he was in New York, she would take a break from her " Tuesday Widows ", and join his circle which included Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis, Joseph Hergesheimer, essayist Ernest Boyd, and theater critic George Jean Nathan.

He met with increasing controversy down the years: those provoked into announcing their opposition included R. P. Blackmur, Oscar Cargill, Ernest Hemingway, Harold Laski, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Joel Elias Spingarn, Allen Tate, and Edmund Wilson.

He accordingly dedicated Figures of Earth to " six most gallant champions " who had rallied to Jurgens defence: Sinclair Lewis, Wilson Follett, Louis Untermeyer, H. L. Mencken, Hugh Walpole, and Joseph Hergesheimer.

Mencken and Sinclair Lewis, author of Babbitt, cited the Middletown studies as examples of the banality and shallowness of American life.

Ernst obtained statements from authors including Dreiser, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Sinclair Lewis, Sherwood Anderson, H. L. Mencken, Upton Sinclair, Ellen Glasgow and John Dos Passos.

Mencken was among Lewis ’ s most ardent supporters.

While Mencken praised Babbitt as unflinching satire, others argued that Lewis took his depiction of the American businessman too far.

H. L. Mencken is credited with coining the word " ecdysiast " – from " ecdysis ", meaning " to molt " – in response to a request from Gypsy Rose Lee for a " more dignified " way to refer to her profession.

A publisher of hardcover fiction and nonfiction, Knopf's list of authors includes John Banville, Max Beerbohm, Carl Bernstein, Willa Cather, Julia Child, Bill Clinton, Michael Crichton, Joan Didion, Fernanda Eberstadt, Bret Easton Ellis, Joseph J. Ellis, James Ellroy, Anne Frank, Lee H. Hamilton, Carl Hiaasen, Kazuo Ishiguro, Thomas Kean, John Keegan, Christopher Lasch, Jack London, Thomas Mann, Gabriel García Márquez, Gabriella De Ferrari, Cormac McCarthy, H. L. Mencken, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Haruki Murakami, P. D. Ouspensky, Christopher Paolini, Henry Petroski, Ezra Pound, Anne Rice, Dorothy Richardson, Andy Russell, Susan Swan, Donna Tartt, Anne Tyler, John Updike, Andrew Vachss, Carl Van Vechten, James D. Watson, Edmund White and Elinor Wylie.

He went to the Hotel Mayflower and telegraphed Mencken.

He had been, he wrote Mencken at once, `` in the country '', a euphemism for an experience that had not greatly changed him.

Mencken credits the postwar mania for adding "- nik " to the ends of adjectives to create nouns as beginning — not with beatnik or Sputnik — but earlier, in the pages of Li ' l Abner.

This story is not mentioned in Dunn ’ s or Mencken ’ s research, but if there were such a contractor and such events, they would have taken place after the term " Hoosier " was already well established in Appalachia and was becoming attached to Indiana.

* 1956 – H. L. Mencken, American journalist ( b. 1880 )

His father, Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Bismarck ( Schönhausen, 13 November 1771 – 22 November 1845 ), was a Junker estate owner and a former Prussian military officer ; his mother, Wilhelmine Luise Mencken ( Potsdam, 24 February 1789 – Berlin ), the well-educated daughter of a senior government official in Berlin.

Mencken — generally considered to be a leading authority on the common English usage in the United States — was not aware that it already existed.

* 1880 – H. L. Mencken, American journalist and author ( d. 1956 )

The trial was covered by famous journalists from the South and around the world, including H. L. Mencken for The Baltimore Sun, which was also paying part of the defense's expenses.

It was Mencken who provided the trial with its most colorful labels such as the " Monkey Trial " of " the infidel Scopes.

Famously vituperative attacks came from journalist H. L. Mencken, whose syndicated columns from Dayton for The Baltimore Sun drew vivid caricatures of the " backward " local populace, referring to the people of Rhea County as " Babbits ," " morons ," " peasants ," " hill-billies ," " yaps ," and " yokels.

" However, Mencken did enjoy certain aspects of Dayton, writing, " The town, I confess, greatly surprised me.

" Mencken attempted to perpetrate a hoax, distributing flyers for the " Rev.

Mencken continued to attack Bryan, including in his famously withering obituary of Bryan, " In Memoriam: W. J. B.

Years later, Mencken did question whether dismissing Bryan " as a quack pure and unadulterated " was " really just.

There is no longer any sense of continuing development of the sort that can be traced from Baudelaire to Eluard, or for that matter, from Hawthorne through Henry James to Gertrude Stein.

Although Gris regarded Picasso as a teacher, Gertrude Stein wrote in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas that " Juan Gris was the only person whom Picasso wished away ".

Her contemporaries included artist Romaine Brooks, who painted others in her circle ; writers Colette, Djuna Barnes, social host Gertrude Stein, and novelist Radclyffe Hall.

In the 20th century, Katherine Mansfield, Amy Lowell, Gertrude Stein, H. D., Vita Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf, and Gale Wilhelm wrote popular works that had same-sex relationships or gender transformations as themes.

In that volume Hemingway credits the phrase to Gertrude Stein, who was then his mentor and patron.

Gertrude Stein with Ernest Hemingway's son, Jack Hemingway ( nicknamed Bumby ) in 1924.

The term originated with Gertrude Stein who, after being unimpressed by the skills of a young car mechanic, asked the garage owner where the young man had been trained.

* The Lost Generation ( which characterized disillusionment ), was the name Gertrude Stein gave to American writers, poets, and artists living in Europe during the 1920s.

* July 27 – Gertrude Stein, American writer ( b. 1874 )

* February 3 – Gertrude Stein, American writer and patron of the arts ( d. 1946 )

Gertrude Stein referred to landscapes made by Picasso in 1909, such as Reservoir at Horta de Ebroas, as the first Cubist paintings.

Around 1906, Picasso met Matisse through Gertrude Stein, at a time when both artists had recently acquired an interest in primitivism, Iberian sculpture, African art and African tribal masks.

In literature, the written works of Gertrude Stein employ repetition and repetitive phrases as building blocks in both passages and whole chapters.

Most of Stein's important works utilize this technique, including the novel The Makings of Americans ( 1906 – 08 ) Not only were they the first important patrons of Cubism, Gertrude Stein and her brother Leo were also important influences on Cubism as well.

Today the composer ( past or present ) of the musical score to an opera or operetta is usually given top billing for the completed work, and the writer of the lyrics relegated to second place or a mere footnote, a notable exception being Gertrude Stein, who received top billing for Four Saints in Three Acts.

Wilder was introduced to Steward by Gertrude Stein, who at the time regularly corresponded with both of them.

When the painting that was singled out for special condemnation, Matisse's Woman with a Hat, was bought by Gertrude and Leo Stein, the embattled artist's morale improved considerably.

Matisse and Picasso were first brought together at the Paris salon of Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas.

During the first decade of the 20th century, Americans in Paris — Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo Stein, Michael Stein and Michael's wife Sarah — were important collectors and supporters of Matisse's paintings.

Contemporaries of Leo and Gertrude Stein, Matisse and Picasso became part of their social circle and routinely joined the gatherings that took place on Saturday evenings at 27 Rue de Fleurus.

* Paris France ( novel ), by Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein ( February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946 ) was an American writer, poet, and art collector who spent most of her life in France.