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Louis Stanton Auchincloss (; September 27, 1917 – January 26, 2010)〔Holcomb B. Noble and Charles McGrath, (Louis Auchincloss, Chronicler of New York’s Upper Crust, Dies at 92 ) ''The New York Times''. Retrieved on January 27, 2010.〕 was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known as a prolific novelist who parlayed his experiences into books exploring the experiences and psychology of American polite society and old money. His dry, ironic works of fiction continue the tradition of Henry James and Edith Wharton. Gore Vidal said of his work: "Of all our novelists, Auchincloss is the only one who tells us how our rulers behave in their banks and their boardrooms, their law offices and their clubs.... Not since Dreiser has an American writer had so much to tell us about the role of money in our lives."〔Vidal, Gore (1974), (“Real Class” ), ''New York Review of Books'', Vol. 21, No. 12 (JULY 18).〕 ==Biography== Born in Lawrence, New York, Auchincloss was the son of Priscilla Dixon (née Stanton) and Joseph Howland Auchincloss. His paternal grandfather, John Winthrop Auchincloss, was the brother of Edgar Stirling Auchincloss (father of James C. Auchincloss) and Hugh Dudley Auchincloss (father of Hugh D. Auchincloss, Jr.). He grew up among the privileged people about whom he would write, although, as he put it, "There was never an Auchincloss fortune…each generation of Auchincloss men either made or married its own money". He attended St. Bernard's School, Groton School and Yale University, where he was editor of the ''Yale Literary Magazine''. Although he did not complete his undergraduate studies at Yale, he was admitted to and attended law school at the University of Virginia. He graduated in 1941 and was admitted to the New York bar the same year. Auchincloss was an associate at Sullivan & Cromwell from 1941 to 1951 (with an interruption for war service from 1941 to 1945 in the United States Navy during World War II, which might have inspired his 1947 novel "The Indifferent Children"). He joined the Naval Reserve as an ensign on December 4, 1940 and was promoted to lieutenant on December 1, 1942.〔Naval Reserve Register. 1944. pg. 39.〕 After taking a break to pursue full-time writing,〔() 1986 interview with Louis Auchincloss〕 Auchincloss returned to working as a lawyer, firstly as an associate (1954–58) and then as a partner (1958–86) at Hawkins, Delafield and Wood in New York City as a wills and trusts attorney, while writing at the rate of a book a year. Auchincloss died from complications of a stroke at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan on January 26, 2010.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Louis Auchincloss」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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