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Louis Stanton Auchincloss (/ ˈɔːkɪŋklɒs /; September 27, 1917 – January 26, 2010) [1] was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known as a novelist who parlayed his experiences into books exploring the experiences and psychology of American polite society and old money.
Louis Auchincloss (born September 27, 1917, Lawrence, New York, U.S.—died January 26, 2010, New York City) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and critic, best known for his novels of manners set in the world of contemporary upper-class New York City.
Louis Auchincloss was born on September 27, 1917 in Lawrence, Long Island, the son of a Wall Street lawyer associated with the firm Davis, Polk, and Wardwell. After graduating in 1935 from the Groton School (the venue for his most widely read novel, The Rector of Justin ), he attended Yale.
Jan 28, 2010 · Louis Auchincloss, a Wall Street lawyer from a prominent old New York family who became a durable and prolific chronicler of Manhattan’s old-money elite, died on Tuesday night in...
Louis Auchincloss is the last of the gentlemen novelists. What happens to a moral realist when the world alters around him?
Jan 9, 2011 · When a brilliant college roommate commits suicide after admitting his homosexuality, Auchincloss says of his friend’s despair, “It had to be strong to grip the feelings of a man who desired ...
Auchincloss has written nearly sixty books, including two multigenerational sagas, The House of Five Talents and Portrait in Brownstone. His novels include Venus in Sparta (1958), The Rector of Justin (1965), The Partners (1974), The Dark Lady (1977), Watchfires (1982), and East Side Story (2004).
Feb 2, 2010 · Times have changed, but in the pages of their fictional chronicler Louis Auchincloss, they and their well-bred offspring live for ever. In fact, Auchincloss was one of them.
Jun 11, 2018 · Louis Auchincloss is among the few dedicated novelists of manners at work in contemporary America. He is a successor to Edith Wharton as a chronicler of the New York aristocracy.
In her definitive literary biography of Auchincloss, Carol Gelderman traces the iconic writer from boarding school to his early literary forays at Yale, from law school to naval service in...
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