Louis Auchincloss died January 26 at the age of 92. A novelist, short story writer, critic and historian, Auchincloss chronicled the old-money elite of Manhattan and the eastern United States. He was thus a successor to Henry James, Edith Wharton and John P. Marquand in his subject matter. Auchincloss stories were regularly printed for decades in such magazines as The Atlantic and The New Yorker. Merrick Library has the following fiction by Louis Auchincloss:
The Aniversary and Other Stories
The Atonement and Other Stories
The Collected Stories of Louis Auchincloss
Diary of a Yuppie
East Side Story
The Education of Oscar Fairfax
False Gods
The Friend of Women and Other Stories
The Headmaster's Dilemma
Her Infinite Variety
Manhattan Monologues
Skinny Island: More Tales of Manhattan
Tales of Yesteryear
The Young Apollo and Other Stories
Last of the Old Guard (final work)
And the following nonfiction:
Motiveless Malignity (criticism)
The Vanderbilt Era: Profiles of a Gilded Age (history)
Theodore Roosevelt (biography)
Woodrow Wilson (biography)
Writers and Personality (literary biography)
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