Sloan Wilson's Death
Born (Birthday) May 8, 1920
Death Date May 25, 2003
Age of Death 83 years
Cause of Death Alzheimer's Disease
Profession Novelist
The novelist Sloan Wilson died at the age of 83. Here is all you want to know, and more!
Biography - A Short Wiki
A twentieth-century American novelist, he is best known for The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and A Summer Place. The latter work was adapted into a 1959 film of the same title.
He married Betty Stephens in 1962; they had four children.
Sloan Wilson, the novelist who put ”The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit” into the American lexicon in 1955, died on Sunday in Virginia. He was 83 and lived in Colonial Beach, Va. He had suffered from Alzheimer’s disease, The Associated Press reported.
Quotes
"I don’t have any contempt for the men who have to have jobs and have to commute and have to pay the mortgage and have to get their kids an education. To me, that’s the backbone of America, to coin a phrase.
"You’re not going to go far unless you’re a workaholic.
"When you have children, you can’t say you’re not interested in money.
"People don’t say ‘Zounds!’ anymore.
"You won’t understand me unless you understand that I am an odd ball.