 According to her biographer Louis Auchincloss, Edith Wharton was a frequent childhood visitor who later described the Wyndcliffe mansion as "The Willows" in "Hudson River Bracketed".In her autobiography, "A Backward Glance" (1933), Mrs. Wharton wrote about Wyndcliffe and her aunt.Nearby notables, past and/or present, have included Levi P. Morton, Vincent Astor, Natalie Merchant, and Annie Leibovitz.