Louis Auchincloss

Louis Auchincloss talks about the novelist's great themes

Louis Auchincloss, the dapper Wall Street lawyer and old school New Yorker who published over 60 works of fiction, biography, and literary criticism, died recently at the age of 92. He was often compared to William Dean Howells and Edith Wharton, and he brought a fondness, with an incisive edge, ...

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Maurice Dolbier introduces attorney and author Louis Auchincloss, who discusses the publication of his recent book of short stories, "Tales of Manhattan." Auchincloss discusses some of his works, including a fictionalized ...

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Maurice Dolbier mentions that three visitors from the USSR are in attendance. He then introduces Gore Vidal, author most recently of "Julian," a work of historical fiction written primarily in the ...