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- noun United States writer (born in 1917)
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A distant relative of Edith Wharton, Auchincloss was part and parcel of the retreating world of which he wrote so eloquently and often.
Omni Daily News: Remembering J.D. Salinger, Howard Zinn, Louis Auchincloss Omnivoracious 2010
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Auchincloss pronounced AW-kin-kloss was a critically acclaimed and bestselling chronicler of Manhattan's WASP elite throughout his half-century career.
Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2010
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As Auchincloss himself noted in interviews, he was not remotely as accomplished as Edith Wharton, in whose wake he worked, but he was nevertheless an artist to be taken seriously as a - chronicler of a certain sphere of life at a certain time.
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Auchincloss had worked as a lawyer before turning to writing, and became known for his chronicles of the Upper East Side's ruling class.
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Glib analysis was insufficient to the problems of the heart Auchincloss was surveying.
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Auchincloss is to New York in the 20th century what Trollope is to English clerical life in the 19th: a writer who must be read to understand the ethos of a lost world, but whose essential subject matter — the heart and its discontents — transcends time and place.
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Tall and forbidding — or forbidding until he cracked a joke, or found something amusing, at which point he would break into a smile of epic proportions — Auchincloss wrote of a vanishing milieu of Eastern privilege: of prep schools and discreet lawyers and quiet clubs where the chairs were comfortable and the martinis cold.
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What is most interesting about Auchincloss, is not the elegance of the lives he chronicled but the complexities, the unfulfilled ambitions, the restless hearts of his characters.
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Salinger will endure much longer and will be read more widely than Auchincloss, who will be viewed in death in much the same way he was in life: as an interesting novelist of manners.
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A lawyer and prolific author, Auchincloss, born in 1917, grew up in houses in Manhattan, on Long Island, and in Bar Harbor, Maine.
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