High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Louis Stanton Auchincloss (September 27, 1917 January 26, 2010) pronounced AWK-in-claus was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known as a prolific novelist who parlayed his firsthand knowledge into dozens of finely wrought books exploring the private lives of America's East Coast patrician class (especially the world of Wall Street bankers, lawyers and stockbrokers). His dry, ironic fiction continued the tradition of Hen ...