Born at Baltimore, Maryland, 1880, of German ancestry. Graduate of Baltimore Polytechnic, 1896. On the Baltimore _Herald_, 1903-5, and _Baltimore Sun_, 1906-17. Became literary critic for _The Smart Set_, 1908, and (with George Jean Nathan), editor, 1914--. War correspondent in Germany and Russia, 1917. Much interested in music. BIBLIOGRAPHY Ventures Into Verse. 1903. George Bernard Shaw, His Plays. 1905. The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. 1908. Men vs. the Man. 1910. (With R.R. LaMonte.) The Artist. 1912. Europe After 8:15. 1914. (With George Jean Nathan, q.v., and Willard Huntingdon Wright.) A Book of Burlesques. 1916. A Little Book in C Major. 1916. A Book of Prefaces. 1917. In Defense of Women. 1918. Damn: a Book of Calumny. 1918. The American Language. 1919. (Revised ed., 1922.) Prejudices: First Series. 1919. The American Credo; a Contribution toward the Interpretation of the National Mind. 1920. (With George Jean Nathan, q.v.) Prejudices: Second Series. 1920. Heliogabalus, a Buffoonery in Three Acts. 1920. (With George Jean Nathan, q.v.) Prejudices: Third Series. STUDIES AND REVIEWS Hatteras, O.A.J. Pistols for Two. 1917. Rascoe, Burton, and Others (Vincent O'Sullivan, q.v., and F.C. Henderson). H.L. Mencken. Brief Appreciations and a Bibliography. 1920. Ath. 1920, 1: 10. Bookm. 41 ('15): 46 (portrait), 56; 53 ('21): 79; 54 ('22): 551 (portrait). Cur. Op. 66 ('19): 391 (portrait); 71 ('21): 360. Dial, 68 ('20): 267. Freeman, 1 ('20): 88. Liv. Age, 303 ('19): 798. New Repub. 21 ('20): 239; 26 ('21): 191; 27 ('21): 10. Little Review, 5 ('18): Jan., p. 10. New Statesman, 14 ('20): 748. +George Middleton+--dramatist. Born at Paterson, New Jersey, 1880. A.B., Columbia, 1902. Married Fola La Follette, 1911. Literary editor of _La Follette's Weekly_, 1912--. BIBLIOGRAPHY *Embers; with The Failures, The Gargoyle, In His House, Madonna, The Man Masterful: One-Act Plays of Contemporary Life. 1911. Tradition, with On Bail, Their Wife, Waiting, The Cheat of Pity, and Mothers: One-Act Plays of Contemporary Life, 1913. Nowadays; a Contemporaneous Comedy. 1914. Criminals; a One-Act Play about Marriage. 1915. Back of the Ballot; a Woman Suffrage Farce in One Act. 1915. Possession, with The Groove, The Unborn, Circles, A Good Woman, The Black-Tie: One-Act Plays of Contemporary Life. 1915. The Road Together; a Contemporaneous Drama in Four Acts. 1916. Masks, Jim's Beast, Tides, Among the Lions, The Reason, The House: One-Act Plays of Contemporary Life. 1920. (With Guy Bolton.) For bibliography of unpublished work, see _Who's Who in America_. STUDIES AND REVIEWS Bookm. 51 ('20): 472. Cur. Op. 56 ('14): 376 (portrait); 68 ('20): 783 (portrait). Freeman, 1 ('20): 449. Nation, 110 ('20): 693. New Repub. 24 ('20): 26. See also _Book Review Digest_, 1913-6, 1920.