I think Louis Auchincloss is a lawyer who once dealt in the bond market. That is what I remember, vaguely. I am certain he comes from the WASP elite and has written a great number of novels about his class in New York and Boston, about Wall Street and "prestigious" law firms. "The Rector of Justin" probably is his best known work.
Years ago I read one Auchincloss novel that so impressed me, I arranged to interview him on the air at Financial News Network. My recollection is that he was quiet, pleasant, understated, somber. Sort of Nantucket walking.
All this by way of recommending "Scarlet Letters," (Houghton Mifflin, 2003), which I have just read. Once again, it’s about his class, but since it begins on Wall Street in the 1950s, it is also about the evolution of law from a profession to a business. It touches, too, on "insider trading" and market manipulation.
Still Auchincloss is most interested in the behavior of American Protestant men and women born to wealth and tradition in the Northeast. And this latest mural, a painting of how they marry and compete and maintain themselves individually and as a class, just took my breath away.
If you read it, let me know what you think.