The Smart Set

…edited (with George Jean Nathan) The Smart Set, a witty urban magazine influential in the growth of American literature, and in 1924 he and Nathan founded the American Mercury, which Mencken edited until 1933.

Mencken—The Smart Set (editorship 1914–23) and American Mercury (which he coedited between 1924 and 1933). A powerful influence and a scathing critic of puritanism, Mencken helped launch the new fiction.

…name is particularly associated with The Smart Set, of which he was co-editor (1914–23) with H.L. Mencken, and with the American Mercury, which, also with Mencken, he helped to found in 1924. As a critic, Nathan championed the plays of Henrik Ibsen, August Strindberg, George Bernard Shaw, Eugene O’Neill