Louis Stanton Auchincloss

1917 - 2010  (92 years)

• Name	Louis Stanton Auchincloss
  Birth	27 Sep 1917	Lawrence, Nassau, New York
  Gender	Male
  Death	26 Jan 2010	Manhattan, New York
  Person ID	I57066	Scudder
  Last Modified	5 Jan 2015

  
  

  Father	Joseph Howland Auchincloss,   b. 22 May 1886, New York City, New York, New York d. 30 Aug 1968, New York City, New York, New York (Age 82 years)
  Mother	Priscilla Dixon Stanton,   b. 10 Sep 1888, New Jersey d. Mar 1972, New York City, New York, New York (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	1911
  Family ID	F20375	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Adele Burden Lawrence,   b. Apr 1931, New York City, New York, New York d. 6 Feb 1991, New York City, New York, New York (Age 59 years)
  Children	1. Andrew Auchincloss   2. John Auchincloss   3. Blake Auchincloss
  Family ID	F20377	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Louis was an American lawyer, novelist, historian, and essayist. He is best known as a prolific novelist who parlayed his experiences into books exploring the experiences and psychology of American polite society and old money. He attended Groton School and Yale University, where he was editor of the Yale Literary Magazine. Although he did not complete his undergraduate studies at Yale, he was admitted to and attended law school at the University of Virginia. He graduated in 1941 and was admitted to the New York bar the same year. When World War II began, Louis enlisted in the Navy. He served in Naval intelligence, then commanded a craft that shuttled troops and the wounded across the English Channel during the Normandy invasion. After the invasion he was sent to the Pacific and while onboard a ship to Japan wrote another novel, only to throw it in the trash.