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  • Louis Auchincloss (centre) with Pres. George W. Bush and Laura Bush after receiving the National Medal of Arts, 2005.
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    …Tales of Manhattan (1967) and Skinny Island (1987), which are set exclusively in Manhattan. Subsequent works include the novels Tales of Yesteryear (1994) and Education of Oscar Fairfax (1995) and a number of short-story anthologies, notably Three Lives (1993), The Anniversary and Other Stories (1999), and Manhattan Monologues (2002), all…

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