Louis Auchincloss (Critical Survey of Short Fiction)
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A practicing attorney on New York’s Wall Street for more than forty years, Louis Auchincloss first drew critical attention as a novelist, reaching his peak with such memorable social chronicles as The House of Five Talents (1960), Portrait in Brownstone (1962), The Rector of Justin (1964), and The Embezzler (1966); some of his strongest short fiction dates from around the same time. The novel The Education of Oscar Fairfax (1995) was well received. Auchincloss also published several volumes of essays and criticism, most...
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