August Mencken (February 18, 1889 – May 19, 1967) was an American

civil engineer A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering – the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructure while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing i ...

and author. He was the younger brother of

Henry Louis Mencken Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English. He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians, ...

and the son of cigar magnate August Mencken Sr.

References

* ''First-class Passenger'' (1938) * ''By the Neck: A Book of Hangings'' (1942) * ''The Railroad Passenger Car: An Illustrated History of the First Hundred Years'' (1957) * ''The Fair Chanteuse, or, Science is Here to Stay'' (1958) * ''The Reluctant Bride: A Romance'' (1960) * ''Designing and Building the Great Pyramid'' (1963) 1889 births 1967 deaths 20th-century American engineers American people of German descent American male non-fiction writers 20th-century American male writers {{US-engineer-stub