Editing H. L. Mencken (section)

===Last years===
On November 23, 1948, Mencken suffered a stroke, which left him aware and fully conscious but nearly unable to read or write and able to speak only with difficulty. After his stroke, Mencken enjoyed listening to classical music, and after some recovery of his ability to speak, talking with friends, but he sometimes referred to himself in the past tense, as if he were already dead. During the last year of his life, his friend and biographer [[William Manchester]] read to him daily.<ref>{{Citation |last=Filkins |first=Dexter |title=Ailing Churchill Biographer Says He Can't Finish Trilogy |date=August 14, 2001 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/14/arts/14MANC.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160307224835/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/14/arts/14MANC.html |archive-date=March 7, 2016 |author-link=Dexter Filkins |url-status=live}}}.</ref>