R. I. P. J. D. Salinger & Louis Auchincloss
Jan 28, 2010 19:29:05 GMT
Post by traveler63 on Jan 28, 2010 19:29:05 GMT
News reports that J. D. Salinger & Louis Auchincloss both passed away recently.
J. D. Salinger of course, most of you know for Catcher in the Rye which was his only novel and it still causes controversy.
Louis Auchincloss on the other hand wrote voraciously in several different genres, novels, short stories, non-fiction. I was first introduced to his writing, when my grandmother Mama Babe gave me his book called False Dawn / It is about 14 women who shaped their own time and influenced ours. It is superbly written and timeless. Some of the women are; La Grande Mademoiselle, Madame de Sevigne, the Arnauld sisters, The Duchess of Marlborough, just to name a few. Here is the list of his works;
* 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)
References
J. D. Salinger of course, most of you know for Catcher in the Rye which was his only novel and it still causes controversy.
Louis Auchincloss on the other hand wrote voraciously in several different genres, novels, short stories, non-fiction. I was first introduced to his writing, when my grandmother Mama Babe gave me his book called False Dawn / It is about 14 women who shaped their own time and influenced ours. It is superbly written and timeless. Some of the women are; La Grande Mademoiselle, Madame de Sevigne, the Arnauld sisters, The Duchess of Marlborough, just to name a few. Here is the list of his works;
* 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)
References
