found: 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)
