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Name: Sloan Wilson  
   
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Date of Birth: 8th May 1920
   
Place of Birth: Westport, Connecticut, USA
   
Profession: Writer
 
 
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Sloan Wilson (8 May 1920 - 25 May 2003) was an American author.

Born in Norwalk, Connecticut, he graduated from Harvard University in 1942. He fought in World War II, serving in the U.S. Coast Guard, commanding a trawler on 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 drew on his wartime experiences. He also published stories in the New Yorker, and worked as a college professor.

Wilson wrote fifteen books, including The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955) and A Summer Place (1958), both of which were filmed.

Wilson suffered from alcoholism throughout his life, and Alzheimer's disease towards the end. He was living on a boat at Colonial Beach, Virginia at the time of his death.

Wilson was married twice, and had four children. His daughter Lisa is a published author, and his son David Sloan Wilson is an evolutionary biologist.

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