Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.

Novelist, historian and essayist                          

Selected Woks:

Novels:

The Indifferent Children - 1947
Sybil - 1952
A Law for the Lion - 1953
The Great World and Timothy Colt - 1956
Venus in Sparta - 1958
Pursuit of the Prodigal - 1959
The House of Five Talents - 1960
Portrait in Brownstone - 1962
The Rector of Justin - 1964
The Embezzler - 1966
A World of Profit - 1968
I Come as a Thief - 1972
The Dark Lady - 1977
The Country Cousin - 1978
The House of the Prophet - 1980
The Cat and the King - 1981
Watchfires - 1982
Exit Lady Masham - 1983
The Book Class - 1984
Honourable Men - 1986
Diary of a Yuppie - 1987
The Golden Calves - 1988
Fellow Passengers: A Novel in Portraits - 1989
The Lady of Situations - 1990
Three Lives - 1993
The Education of Oscar Fairfax - 1995
Her Infinite Variety - 2000
The Scarlet Letters - 2003
East Side Story - 2004
The Headmaster's Dilemma - 2007
Last of the Old Guard - 2008

Short story collections:

The Injustice Collectors - 1950
The Romantic Egoists - 1954
Powers of Attorney - 1963
Tales of Manhattan - 1967
Second Chance: Tales of Two Generations - 1970
The Partners - 1974
The Winthrop Covenant - 1976
Narcissa and Other Fables - 1982
Skinny Island: More Tales of Manhattan - 1987
False Gods - 1992
Tales of Yesteryear - 1994
The Collected Stories of Louis Auchincloss - 1994
The Atonement and Other Stories - 1997
The Anniversary and Other Stories - 1999
Manhattan Monologues - 2002
The Young Apollo and Other Stories - 2006
The Friend of Women and Other Stories - 2007

Nonfiction:

Reflections of a Jacobite - 1961
Pioneers and Caretakers: A Study of Nine American Women Novelists - 1965
On Sister Carrie - 1968
Motiveless Malignity - 1969
Edith Wharton: A Woman in Her Time - 1972
Richelieu - 1972
A Writer's Capital - 1974
Reading Henry James - 1975
Life, Law, and Letters: Essays and Sketches - 1979
Persons of Consequence: Queen Victoria and Her Circle - 1979
False Dawn: Women in the Age of the Sun King - 1985
The Vanderbilt Era: Profiles of a Gilded Age - 1989
Love without Wings: Some Friendships in Literature and Politics - 1991
The Style's the Man: Reflections on Proust, Fitzgerald, Wharton, Vidal, and Others - 1994
The Man Behind the Book: Literary Profiles - 1996
Woodrow Wilson - Penguin Lives - 2000
Theodore Roosevelt - The American Presidents Series - 2002                          

Mother Priscilla Dixon Stanton
Father Joseph Howland Auchincloss                          

Worked as an associate, 1954-58 and then as a partner 1958-86, at Hawkins, Delafield and Wood in New York City as a wills and trusts attorney, while writing a novel per year.