Louis Auchincloss

Louis Auchincloss fu un romanziere, storico e saggista americano, noto per le sue raffinate rappresentazioni dell'alta società di New York e del New England. Tra le sue opere più celebrate vi sono le saghe familiari multigenerazionali "The House of Five Talents", "Portrait in Brownstone" ed "East Side Story". Ottenne anche il plauso della critica per romanzi come "The Rector of Justin", che esplora la vita di un preside di una prestigiosa scuola alle prese con i cambiamenti sociali, e "The Embezzler", un'analisi sfumata dei crimini dei colletti bianchi.

La carriera letteraria di Auchincloss si estese per oltre sei decenni, durante i quali documentò meticolosamente i costumi, la morale e i conflitti dell'élite americana. La sua prosa era caratterizzata da un'acuta osservazione sociale e da profondità psicologica, spesso paragonata a quella di Edith Wharton e Henry James. Molte delle sue opere esplorano temi come il privilegio, la tradizione e le tensioni tra ambizione personale e aspettative sociali.

Oltre alla narrativa, Auchincloss scrisse diversi studi storici e saggi, consolidando ulteriormente la sua reputazione di attento cronista dell'aristocrazia americana. I suoi contributi alla letteratura gli valsero numerosi riconoscimenti, tra cui una National Medal of Arts nel 2005. Auchincloss continuò a scrivere fino agli ultimi anni della sua vita, lasciando un'eredità letteraria ricca e influente negli studi della storia sociale americana.
Romanzi singoli
# Titolo Anno
1 The Indifferent Children 1947
2 Sybil 1952
3 Law for the Lion 1953
4 The Great World and Timothy Colt 1957
5 Venus in Sparta 1958
6 Pursuit of the Prodigal 1959
7 The House of Five Talents 1960
8 Watchfires 1960
9 Portrait in Brownstone 1962
10 The Rector of Justin 1964
11 The Embezzler 1966
12 World of Profit 1969
13 I Come As a Thief 1972
14 The Book Class 1974
15 The Dark Lady 1977
16 The Country Cousin 1978
17 The House of the Prophet 1980
18 The Cat and the King 1981
19 Exit Lady Masham 1983
20 Honorable Men 1985
21 Diary of a Yuppie 1986
22 Fellow Passengers 1988
23 The Golden Calves 1988
24 Lady of Situations 1990
25 The Education of Oscar Fairfax 1995
26 Her Infinite Variety 2000
27 The Scarlet Letters 2003
28 East Side Story 2004
29 The Headmaster's Dilemma 2007
30 Last of the Old Guard 2008
Libri di non-fiction
# Titolo Anno
1 Cases and Materials On Law of Contracts 1960
2 Reflections of a Jacobite 1961
3 Ellen Glasgow 1964
4 The World of Henry James 1964
5 Pioneers and Caretakers 1965
6 Motiveless Malignity 1970
7 Richelieu 1972
8 Reading Henry James 1975
9 Introduction to Anglo-American law 1977
10 A Writer's Capital 1979
11 Persons of Consequence 1979
12 Life, Law and Letters 1979
13 Three Perfect Novels 1981
14 Maverick in Mauve 1983
15 A Writer's Use of Fact in Fiction 1984
16 False Dawn 1984
17 The Vanderbilt Era 1989
18 The Hone and Strong Diaries of Old Manhattan 1989
19 J.P. Morgan 1990
20 Love Without Wings 1991
21 The Style's the Man 1994
22 Newport Remembered 1994
23 La Gloire 1996
24 The Man Behind the Book 1996
25 Theodore Roosevelt 2002
26 Forging a New Nation 2002
27 Hawthorne Revisited 2004
28 Writers and Personality 2005
29 Woodrow Wilson: A Life 2009
30 A Voice from Old New York 2010
Collections (with Jerry Pinkney)
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1 The Injustice Collectors 1951
2 The Romantic Egotists 1954
3 The Unholy Three 1955
4 Powers of Attorney 1963
5 Tales of Manhattan 1967
6 Second Chance 1970
7 The Partners 1974
8 The Winthrop Covenant 1976
9 Narcissa and Other Fables 1983
10 Skinny Island 1987
11 False Gods 1992
12 Three Lives 1993
13 Tales of Yesteryear 1994
14 The Collected Stories of Louis Auchincloss 1994
15 The Atonement 1997
16 Civil Wars 1999
17 The Anniversary 1999
18 Manhattan Monologues 2002
19 The Young Apollo 2006
20 The Friend of Women 2007
Pamphlets on American Writers Books
# Titolo Anno
1 Henry James (By: Leon Edel) 1960
2 Edith Wharton 1961
3 Nathanael West ( By: Stanley Edgar Hyman) 1962
4 Sinclair Lewis (By: Mark Schorer) 1963
5 Flannery O’Connor ( By: Stanley Edgar Hyman) 1966
6 Henry D. Thoreau ( By: Leon Edel) 1970
7 William Styron (By: Richard Pearce) 1971
8 Henry Adams 1971
Penguin Lives Books
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1 Abraham Lincoln (By: Thomas Keneally) 1960
2 Mao Zedong: A Life (By: Jonathan D. Spence) 1999
3 Mozart: A Life (By: Peter Gay) 1999
4 Marcel Proust (By: Edmund White) 1999
5 Crazy Horse (By: Larry McMurtry) 1999
6 Saint Augustine (By: Garry Wills) 1999
7 James Joyce (By: Edna O'Brien) 1999
8 Rosa Parks (By: Douglas Brinkley) 2000
9 Virginia Woolf (By: Nigel Nicolson) 2000
10 Woodrow Wilson 2000
11 Herman Melville (By: Elizabeth Hardwick) 2000
12 Leonardo da Vinci: A Life (By: Sherwin B. Nuland) 2000
13 Dante (By: R.W.B. Lewis) 2001
14 Jane Austen: A Life (By: Carol Shields) 2001
15 Buddha (By: Karen Armstrong) 2001
16 Simone Weil (By: Francine du Plessix Gray) 2001
17 Andy Warhol: A Biography (By: Wayne Koestenbaum) 2001
18 Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life (By: Marshall Frady) 2001
19 Joseph Smith (By: Robert V. Remini) 2002
20 Winston Churchill: A Life (By: John Keegan) 2002
21 Pope John XXIII (By: Thomas Cahill) 2002
22 Charles Dickens (By: Jane Smiley) 2002
23 Elvis Presley (By: Bobbie Ann Mason) 2002
24 Saint Therese of Lisieux (By: Kathryn Harrison) 2003
25 Robert E. Lee (By: Roy Blount Jr.) 2003
26 Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life (By: Ada Louise Huxtable) 2004
27 George Herbert Walker Bush (By: Tom Wicker) 2004
28 Napoleon (By: Paul Johnson) 2006
29 Julia Child (By: Laura Shapiro) 2007
30 Joan of Arc (By: Mary Gordon) 2008
31 Martin Luther (By: Martin E. Marty) 2008
32 Branch Rickey: A Life (By: Jimmy Breslin) 2011
The American Presidents Books
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1 Theodore Roosevelt 2002
2 James Madison (By: Garry Wills) 2002
3 Bill Clinton (By: Hal Marcovitz) 2002
4 Grover Cleveland ( By: Henry F. Graff) 2002
5 John Quincy Adams (By: Robert V. Remini) 2002
6 Rutherford B. Hayes (By: Hans L. Trefousse) 2002
7 Dwight D. Eisenhower (By: Tom Wicker) 2002
8 Thomas Jefferson (By: Joyce Appleby) 2003
9 James K. Polk (By: John Seigenthaler) 2003
10 William McKinley (By: Kevin Phillips) 2003
11 Abraham Lincoln (By: George S. McGovern) 2003
12 Woodrow Wilson (By: H.W. Brands) 2003
13 John Adams (By: John Patrick Diggins) 2003
14 George H. W. Bush (By: Timothy Naftali) 2003
15 Franklin Delano Roosevelt (By: Roy Jenkins) 2003
16 Warren G. Harding (By: John W. Dean) 2004
17 James Buchanan (By: Jean H. Baker) 2004
18 George Washington (By: James MacGregor Burns, Susan Dunn) 2004
19 Chester Alan Arthur (By: Zachary Karabell) 2004
20 Ulysses S. Grant (By: Josiah Bunting) 2004
21 Martin Van Buren (By: Ted Widmer) 2005
22 Benjamin Harrison (By: Charles W. Calhoun) 2005
23 James Monroe (By: Gary Hart) 2005
24 Andrew Jackson ( By: Sean Wilentz) 2005
25 James A. Garfield (By: Ira Rutkow) 2006
26 Calvin Coolidge (By: David Greenberg) 2006
27 Gerald R. Ford ( By: Douglas Brinkley) 2007
28 Richard M. Nixon (By: Elizabeth Drew) 2007
29 Herbert Hoover (By: William E. Leuchtenburg) 2008
30 Zachary Taylor (By: John S.D. Eisenhower) 2008
31 Harry S. Truman (By: Robert Dallek) 2008
32 John Tyler (By: Gary May) 2008
33 Andrew Johnson (By: Annette Gordon-Reed) 2008
34 Millard Fillmore (By: Paul Finkelman) 2009
35 Franklin Pierce (By: Michael F. Holt) 2010
36 Lyndon B. Johnson (By: Charles Peters) 2010
37 John F. Kennedy (By: Alan Brinkley) 2010
38 Jimmy Carter (By: Julian E. Zelizer) 2010
39 William Henry Harrison (By: Gail Collins) 2012
40 William Howard Taft (By: Jeffrey Rosen) 2012
41 George W. Bush ( By: James Mann) 2015
42 Ronald Reagan (By: Jacob Weisberg) 2016
Louis Auchincloss Anthologies
# Titolo Anno
1 Writing New York 1998