A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long.

He also publiSloan Wilsond stories in The New Yorker and worked as a college professor at University at Buffalo The State University of New York. He served in World War II serving in the United States Coast Guard commanding a naval trawler on the Greenland patrol and an army supply ship in the Pacific Ocean. In Georgie Winthrop an over-the-hill 45-year-old college vice president takes up with the bohemian 17-year-old daughter of his childhood love.

Sloan Wilson (May 8 1920 – May 25 2003) was an American author.