![]() Wilson then pursued a career as an assistant professor of English at the University of Buffalo. He eventually moved on to Time magazine in New York where he became connected to the National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools, serving on their staff for three years in Washington, DC. ![]() At the end of the war he returned home to follow his dream of establishing a writing career while working as a cub reporter for the Rhode Island Bulletin and Journal. ![]() Married at 18, Sloan graduated Harvard University in 1942 and immediately signed on to the Coast Guard during World War II, serving in both the North Atlantic and the South Pacific. Many consider the book iconic in its encapsulation of the cultural tensions of 1950s America-collectivism versus individualism. The novel, set in Westport, Connecticut, examines the life of a returning World War II veteran in post-war suburbia and his subsequent angst-ridden struggle to maintain his family’s upper-middle-class lifestyle. ![]() Readers know Wilson best for his 1955 book The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. On May 8, 1920, American author Sloan Wilson was born in Norwalk, Connecticut. ![]()
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