Louis Auchincloss
Novelist, Author
1917 – 2010
Who was Louis Auchincloss?
Louis Stanton Auchincloss was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known as a prolific novelist who parlayed his firsthand knowledge into dozens of finely wrought books exploring the private lives of America's East Coast patrician class. His dry, ironic works of fiction continue the tradition of Henry James and Edith Wharton.
Gore Vidal said of his work: "Of all our novelists, Auchincloss is the only one who tells us how our rulers behave in their banks and their boardrooms, their law offices and their clubs.... Not since Dreiser has an American writer had so much to tell us about the role of money in our lives."
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- Born
- Sep 27, 1917
Lawrence - Also known as
- Louis Stanton Auchincloss
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Yale University
- Groton School
- University of Virginia
- University of Virginia School of Law
- Lived in
- New York
- Died
- Jan 26, 2010
Manhattan
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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