Charles Angoff

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Angoff, Charles (1902 - 1979)

Using the pseudonym Richard W. Hinton, Angoff wrote Arsenal for Skeptics (1934), a sampler of freethought.

He joined the editorial staff of the American Mercury in 1925 as a protege of H.L. Mencken and served as managing editor from 1931 to 1934, and from 1943 to 1950.

He also taught at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey and other universities. He wrote some thirty books, including H.L. Mencken: A Portrait From Memory (1956) and a series of novels about American Jewish life, beginning with Journey To The Down (1951), as well as many plays, poetry, and literary criticism.

Angoff is buried at Saint Albert Cemetery, Dundee, Delaware County, Iowa.

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