Sloan Wilson

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Sloan Wilson (8 May 1920 - 25 May 2003)

Wilson, who was born in Norwalk, Connecticut, graduated from Harvard University in 1942.

During World War II, he served as a lieutenant in the United States Coast Guard on USS Tampa, after which he became a reporter for Time-Life publications.

Also, he taught at the University of Buffalo and the State University of New York.

The author of fifteen books, he wrote The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1955, and translated into 26 languages) and A Summer Place (1958), both of which were made into motion pictures. Ice Brothers is partly based on his Coast Guard experiences in Greenland.

Married twice, he had four children and once was a member of the New Canaan (Connecticut) School Board. An alcoholic, he died of Alzheimer's disease, was cremated, and his ashes were scattered at sea from his former ship.

Asked in 1956 to comment about various categories of humanism, he wrote: