Louis Stanton Auchincloss was an American novelist, historian, and essayist. Among Auchincloss' best-known books are the multi-generational sagas The House of Five Talents, Portrait in Brownstone, and East Side Story. Other well-known novels include The Rector of Justin, the tale of a renowned headmaster of a school like Groton trying to deal with changing times, and The Embezzler, a look at white-collar crime. Auchincloss is known for his closely observed portraits of old New York and New England society.
Series
Books
Her Infinite Variety
2000
Last Of The Old Guard
2008
The Winthrop Covenant
1976
East Side Story
A Novel
2004
I Come As a Thief
1972
The House of the Prophet
A Novel
1980
Honorable Men
1985
Skinny Island
More Tales of Manhattan
1987
Fellow Passengers
A Novel in Portraits
1989
Tales of Manhattan
1967
The House of Five Talents
1960
The Headmaster's Dilemma
2007
The Atonement and Other Stories
1997
The Cat and the King
1981
Exit Lady Masham
1983
False Gods
1992
Theodore Roosevelt
2002
The Scarlet Letters
2003
Diary of a Yuppie
1986
A World of Profit
1968
Vanderbilt Era
Profiles of a Gilded Age
1989
Powers of Attorney
1955
The Partners
1974
The Education of Oscar Fairfax
1995
The Golden Calves
1988
Woodrow Wilson
2000
Portrait in Brownstone
1962
The lady of situations
1990
Edith Wharton
1971
Persons of Consequence
Queen Victoria and Her Circle
1979
A Voice from Old New York
A Memoir of My Youth
2010
The Dark Lady
1977
The Anniversary and Other Stories
1999
The Embezzler
1966
Three Lives
1993
The Collected Stories of Louis Auchincloss
1994
Watchfires
1982
The Friend of Women and Other Stories
2007
Manhattan Monologues
Stories
2002
The Rector of Justin
1964
The Book Class
1974
