Or in a Louis Auchincloss story, she might have added. The Manhattan lawyer Auchincloss, now eighty-five years old, has described in dozens of novels the world of New York’s old money and the lives of ...

East Side Story, the 60th novel by Louis Auchincloss—a master of crystalline operations and onerous messages—is a rowdy opera that behaves like poised chamber music. It chronicles a New York family ...

THE EMBEZZLER by Louis Auchincloss. 277 pages. Houghfon Mifflin. $4.95. Among authors who have written about the rich, from Thackeray to Fitzgerald, envy in the form of satire has often leaked onto ...

NEW YORK — “The older you get, the more you find there isn’t anything new,” intones Louis Auchincloss, who is comfortably ensconced in an armchair in the Park Avenue apartment he has occupied since ...

TALES OF MANHATTAN by Louis Auchincloss. 304 pages. Houghfon Mifflin. $4.95. Readers resort to Louis Auchincloss with much the same misgivings that sensible men feel when they resort to the law. A New ...

(AP) — 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. The author's grandson ...

Anna Deavere Smith is an award-winning playwright and actress who is credited with having created a new form of theater. Anna Deavere Smith is an award-winning playwright and actress who is credited ...

For years, the name Louis Auchincloss was no more than that to me, and in fact I think it may have been tangled or conflated in my mind with that of another literary lawyer, Louis Begley—a ...