| LC control no. | n 78091976 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3573.I475 |
| Personal name heading | Wilson, Sloan, 1920-2003 |
| Birth date | 1920-05-08 |
| Death date | 2003-05-25 |
| Place of birth | Connecticut |
| Place of death | Colonial Beach (Va.) |
| Affiliation | United States. Coast Guard University of Buffalo |
| Profession or occupation | Authors |
| Found in | Voyage to somewhere, 1946: title page (Sloan Wilson) The man in the gray flannel suit, c1997 credits (from the novel by Sloan Wilson) New York times, May 27, 2003: obituaries (Sloan Wilson; novelist; b. May 8, 1920 in Westport, Conn.; d. May 25, 2003 in Virginia) Wikipedia, June 30, 2020 (Sloan Wilson; Sloan Wilson (born May 8, 1920 in Norwalk, Connecticut; died May 25, 2003 in Colonial Beach, Virginia) was an American writer; he was a grandson of US Navy officer and Arctic explorer John Wilson Danenhower; 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 University of Buffalo, now called the State University of New York at 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 adapted into feature movies; in addition to novels and magazine articles, he funded himself during his later years by writing commissioned works such as biographies and yacht histories) |
| Associated language | eng |
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