Louis Auchincloss
Louis Auchincloss was an American author and lawyer, making his name during the early half of the twentieth century. He wrote novels, essays, and historical works, often focusing on wealthy families and high society. His stories carried a sharp, clever tone, similar to writers like Henry James and Edith Wharton. Early in his career, he used a pen name based on an ancestor linked to a peculiar family story.
Publication Order
Standalone Books
Cases and Materials On Law of Contracts
1960
Reflections of a Jacobite
1961
Ellen Glasgow
1964
The World of Henry James
1964
Pioneers and Caretakers
1965
Motiveless Malignity
1970
Richelieu
1972
Reading Henry James
1975
Introduction to Anglo-American law
1977
A Writer's Capital
1979
Persons of Consequence
1979
Life, Law and Letters
1979
Three Perfect Novels
1981
Maverick in Mauve
1983
A Writer's Use of Fact in Fiction
1984
False Dawn
1984
The Vanderbilt Era
1989
The Hone and Strong Diaries of Old Manhattan
1989
J.P. Morgan
1990
Love Without Wings
1991
The Style's the Man
1994
Newport Remembered
1994
La Gloire
1996
The Man Behind the Book
1996
Theodore Roosevelt
2002
Forging a New Nation
2002
Hawthorne Revisited
2004
Writers and Personality
2005
Woodrow Wilson: A Life
2009
A Voice from Old New York
2010