But many young people thought Mencken was a hero whose only crime was writing the truth.

但许多年轻人认为门肯是一位英雄，他唯一的罪过就是写出了真相。

Social criticism also was central to the writing of the newspaper writer H. L. Mencken, from the eastern city of Baltimore.

报纸作家H。 L。门肯来自东部城市巴尔的摩，社会批评也是他的作品里的主流。

The work of Lewis, Mencken, and a number of other writers of the nineteen twenties has been forgotten by many Americans as the years have passed.

刘易斯、门肯和其他一些20世纪20年代作家的作品，随着岁月的流逝被许多美国人遗忘。