Louis Auchincloss, 1917-2010

“That business of objecting to the subject material or the people that an author writes about is purely class prejudice, and you will note that it always disappears with an author’s death,” writer Louis Auchincloss once noted. “Nobody holds it against Henry James or Edith Wharton or Thackeray or Marcel Proust.” We will soon find out. Auchincloss, whose chronicles of the monied elite drew both praise and scorn, passed away on Tuesday at the age of 92.