Stephen Birmingham

In The Auerbach Will, the novel by America's most renowned chronicler of the rich, ambitious young Essie Litsky defies a rigid upbringing by immigrant Russian Jewish parents to achieve wealth and success. But her children tear Essie and her husband Jack Auerbach's family apart in fights over their fortune, and Essie finds that money will not mend broken lives. Stephen Birmingham concludes this complex family saga, set in the Park Avenue world he first portrayed in the bestselling Our Crowd, with a surprise revelation. The story of Essie Auerbach and the Auerbach Will is unforgettable.

America’s Secret Aristocracy offers an inside look at the estates, marriages and financial empires of America’s most selective club and a gallery of vivid portrait of its members.