Fellow Passengers: A Novel in Portraits

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Houghton Mifflin, 1989 - Fiction - 223 pages
Secrets, foibles, and ironies expose the Establishment in this subtle novel of society matrons and dilettantes, of debutante parties and contested wills. Auchincloss reveals his gallery of portraits with style and wit.

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AUNT MABEL I
1
UNCLE THEO
27
LEONARD ARMSTER
46
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About the author (1989)

Louis Auchincloss was born on September 27, 1917 in New York. He attended Groton College and Yale University and received a law degree from the University of Virginia. He served in the U.S. Navy for four years during World War ll. A practicing attorney, Auchincloss wrote his first novel, "The Indifferent Children," in 1947 under the pseudonym Andrew Lee, establishing a dual career as a successful lawyer and writer. Born into a socially prominent family, Auchincloss generally writes about society's upper class. Strong family connections, well-bred manners, and corporate boardrooms are subject matter in such novels as "Portrait in Brownstone" and "I Come As a Thief." He has also written several biographical and critical works on such notable writers as Edith Wharton and Henry James. Auchincloss was President of the Museum of the City of New York.

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