The 2016 Mencken Memorial Lecture: "Joint Transmission: The Friendship of H. L. Mencken and Blanche Knopf" presented by Laura Claridge, author of The Lady with the Borzoi: Blanche Knopf, Literary Tastemaker Extraordinaire. Laura Claridge received a Ph.D. in British Romanticism and Literary Theory from the University of Maryland and was a tenured professor of English at the U.S. Naval Academy until 1997.Recorded On: Saturday, September 10, 2016