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A novel, based on historical fact, about the greenland patrol, which o. An avid sailor, he joined the us coast guard shortly after pearl harbor, and during world war ii commanded a naval trawler on the greenland patrol an. Born in norwalk, connecticut, he was a grandson of us navy officer and. Wilson preferred happy endings in his novels, feeling that happiness was truer to america. With encouragement from dick simon, of simon and shuster, sloan wrote the classic man in the gray flannel suit which was to beocme an anthem during the 1950s. Born in norwalk, connecticut, wilson graduated from harvard university in 1942. Readers know wilson best for his 1955 book the man in the gray flannel suit. Sloan wilson author of the man in the gray flannel suit.
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