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Sloan Wilson


Born
in Norwalk, Fairfield County, Connecticut, The United States
May 08, 1920

Died
May 25, 2003

Genre
Fiction, Poetry, Nonfiction


Sloan Wilson (May 8, 1920 – May 25, 2003) was an American writer.
Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, Wilson graduated from Harvard University in 1942. He served in World War II as an officer of the United States Coast Guard, commanding a naval trawler for the Greenland Patrol and an army supply ship in the Pacific Ocean.
After the war, Wilson worked as a reporter for Time-Life. His first book, Voyage to Somewhere, was published in 1947 and was based on his wartime experiences. He also published stories in The New Yorker and worked as a professor at the State University of New York's University of Buffalo.
Wilson published 15 books, including the bestsellers The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955) and A Summer Place (1958), both of which were adapte ...more

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Average rating: 3.89 · 5,100 ratings · 600 reviews · 34 distinct works • Similar authors
The Man in the Gray Flannel...
3.88 avg rating — 3,748 ratings — published 1955 — 88 editions
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A Summer Place
3.86 avg rating — 534 ratings — published 1958 — 37 editions
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Ice Brothers
4.26 avg rating — 278 ratings — published 1979 — 15 editions
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Pacific Interlude
4.02 avg rating — 171 ratings — published 1982 — 6 editions
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Voyage to Somewhere
4.08 avg rating — 111 ratings — published 1946 — 16 editions
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All the Best People
3.25 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1970 — 12 editions
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The Man in the Gray Flannel...
3.49 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1984 — 8 editions
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Small Town
3.39 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1978 — 7 editions
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Sense of Values
3.96 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1960 — 16 editions
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The World War II Novels: Vo...
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“The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.”
― Sloan Wilson, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
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“Only masochists can get along without editing their own memories.”
― Sloan Wilson
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“How smoothly one becomes, not a cheat, exactly, not really a liar, just a man who'll say anything for pay.”
― Sloan Wilson, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
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