Louis Auchincloss, American novelist and essayist (died 2010)

Louis Auchincloss

American lawyer, novelist and historian (1917–2010)

Louis Stanton Auchincloss 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. His dry, ironic works of fiction…