sloan wilson wrote the man in the gray flannel suit.
sloan wilson wrote the man in the gray flannel suit.
who wrote the man in the gray flannel suit?
sloan wilson
the man in the gray flannel suit ii









































the man in the gray flannel suit ii is a novel by writer sloan wilson. a sequel to "the man in the gray flannel suit" (1955), it was published in 1984, nearly thirty years after its original.









































the novel focuses on the lives of the most of the character from the first novel as they approach middle age. unlike "the man in the gray flannel suit", the sequel is told in the first person: tom rath narrates the continuing story of his life.
the man in the gray flannel suit ii
"the man in the gray flannel suit ii" was not a commercial success. many fans felt that the sequel did not live up to the expectations set by the original. the novel marked wilson's last major effort in fiction writing. (his autobiographical memoir "what shall we wear to the party?: the man in the gray flannel suit, twenty years before & after," published in 1976, also marked wilson's last non-fiction effort.) after early success with "the man in the gray flannel suit" and "a summer place" in the 1950s — both of which became best-sellers and were made into profitable motion pictures — wilson crafted ten more books, but none approached those early heights of popularity.
the man in the gray flannel suit ii