Louis Auchincloss
Louis Auchincloss
Louis Stanton Auchincloss 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth27 September 1917
CityLawrence, NY
CountryUnited States of America
The glittering structure of her cultivation sits on her novels like a rather showy icing that detracts from the cake beneath.
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
Maybe when I'm dead, I'll be forgiven, but I'm afraid I'll also be forgotten.
If you can sense the corruption in me, it is ... because there's a dose of it in you.
Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.