Reporter and Professor
In 1947, Manchester went to work as a reporter for The Baltimore Sun. There he met journalist H. L. Mencken who became the subject for Manchester's master's thesis and first book, Disturber of the Peace. The biography, published in 1951, profiles Mencken, the self-described "conservative anarchist" who made his mark as a writer, editor, and political pundit in the 1920s. In 1953, Manchester published his novel The City of Anger fictionally placed in Baltimore and dealing with inner city life and the numbers racket, subjects Manchester had learned about as a big city reporter.
In 1955, Manchester left journalism to became an editor for Wesleyan University and the Wesleyan University Press and spent the rest of his career at the University. For the academic year 1959-1960, he was a Fellow on the faculty at the Center for Advanced Studies of Wesleyan. He later became an adjunct professor of history, adjunct professor Emeritus, and writer-in-residence at the University.
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