Louis Stanton Auchincloss (pronounced AW-kin-kloss) was born on Sept. 27, 1917, in Lawrence, on Long Island, joining an upper-crust clan of Auchinclosses, Dixons, Howlands and Stantons.

When the novelist Louis Auchincloss died last January, at 92, his timing could hardly have been worse. J. D. Salinger died the next day, obliterating much of the attention that would have come ...

It Was His Town: Louis Auchincloss’ Posthumous Memoir Exposes the Limits of His Style New York’s skyline tells the story of the city, its towers etched clear against the clouds like letters on a ...

Louis Auchincloss, a prolific author of fiction and nonfiction whose dozens of books imparted sober, firsthand knowledge of America’s patrician class, has died. He was 92.

WHEN Louis Auchincloss describes the fictional New England private school that is the focus of his new book as “a stalwart fortress against the creeping vulgarity of the day,” he might be ...

Louis Auchincloss, a prolific author of fiction and nonfiction whose dozens of books imparted sober, firsthand knowledge of America's patrician class, has died. He was 92.

Ernest Saunders is the somewhat opaque anti-hero of Louis Auchincloss' 31st novel. Ernest's only act of disobedience as a child is to insist to his mother that he doesn't love anyone. He courts ...

THE ANNIVERSARY AND OTHER STORIESBy Louis AuchinclossHoughton Mifflin, 192 pages, $25In his 1964 novel, “The Rector of Justin,” Louis Auchincloss used the character Francis Prescott to ...

Louis Auchincloss, a prolific author of fiction and nonfiction whose dozens of books imparted sober, firsthand knowledge of America’s patrician class, has died. He was 92.

Louis Auchincloss, a prolific author of fiction and nonfiction whose dozens of books imparted sober, firsthand knowledge of America's patrician class, has died. He was 92.

Louis Auchincloss’ fans will be happy to celebrate his 90th birthday later this month with The Headmaster’s Dilemma, a novel that puts his grand total at more than 60 books of assorted fiction ...

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