Louis Stanton Auchincloss was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist.
12 Facts About Louis Auchincloss
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Louis Auchincloss is best known as a novelist who parlayed his experiences into books exploring the experiences and psychology of American polite society and old money.
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Louis Auchincloss wrote his novels initially under the name Andrew Lee, the name of an ancestor who cursed any descendant who drank or smoked.
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Louis Auchincloss attended St Bernard's School, Groton School and Yale University, where he was editor of the Yale Literary Magazine.
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Louis Auchincloss graduated in 1941 and was admitted to the New York bar the same year.
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Louis Auchincloss applied to join the Naval Reserve as an intelligence specialist on December 4,1940 and was appointed as a lieutenant on December 1,1942.
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Louis Auchincloss is known for his closely observed portraits of old New York and New England society.
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Louis Auchincloss would remain close to New York again in his later fiction writing.
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In 1957, Louis Auchincloss married Adele Burden Lawrence, the daughter of Florence Irvin Lawrence and Blake Leigh Lawrence.
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Louis Auchincloss's grandfather was prominent industrialist James A Burden Jr.
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Louis Auchincloss was president and chairman of the Museum of the City of New York and chairman of the City Hall Restoration Committee and was a member of the Century Association and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, where he served as president.
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On January 26,2010, Louis Auchincloss died from complications of a stroke at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.