Louis Auchincloss (1917– 2010), graduate of Yale with a law degree from the University of Virginia, was a New York lawyer whose polished fiction about high society began with several volumes issued under the pseudonym Andrew Lee. His novels include The Indifferent Children, A Law for the Lion, The Great World and Timothy Colt, Pursuit of the Prodigal, The House of Five Talents, Portrait in Brownstone, The Embezzler, and many others.
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Like a latter-day Olympus, the large Manhattan law firm of Sheffield, Knox & Dale is so rich and influential, so full of good grey heads, that it is more like a seat of government than a place of business. To Timothy Colt, law is the very essence of Ameri... SEE MORE