LOUIS AUCHINCLOSS, 92

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Louis Auchincloss, an author of fiction and nonfiction whose dozens of books imparted sober, firsthand knowledge of America's patrician class, has died. He was 92.

The author's grandson, James Auchincloss, said last week that Auchincloss died Tuesday, a week after suffering a stroke.

Louis Auchincloss' wife, Adele, an artist and environmentalist, died in 1991. They had three sons.

He wrote more than 50 books, averaging about one a year after the end of World War II, and crafted such accomplished works as the novel "The Rector of Justin" and the memoir "A Writer's Capital," not to mention biographies, literary criticism and short stories. He was a four-time fiction finalist for the National Book Award, his nominated novels including "The Embezzler" and "The House of Five Talents."

"I'm rather inclined to be edgy when I'm not writing," Auchincloss said in a 1994 interview .

- Associated Press

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