James Park Sloan

James Park Sloan (born 1945) is a noted American author, critic and academic. He is currently Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was educated at Harvard University, designed a course in 'Western Values' for the Harvard Business School and served in the Vietnam War as a paratrooper.

Sloan drew on his military experiences for his first novel, War Games (Houghton, 1971), which won the 'New Writers Award' for the best novel of 1970-71 from the Great Lakes College Prize Committee.

He gained further recognition with his much-praised second novel, The Case History of Comrade V (Houghton, 1972). A third novel, The Last Cold War Cowboy (Morrow, 1987) came out in 1987.

He has also written non fiction works including a widely reviewed biography of controversial Polish-American writer Jerzy Kosinski, published by Dutton in 1996.

His short stories and articles include:

• "The Words of the Prophets", published in Amazing magazine in May 1988
• "Vietnam No Big Deal", published in the anthology Aftermath (ed. Donald Anderson, Holt, 1995)
• "Kosinski's War", published in The New Yorker, October 10, 1994

External links

• 1972 TIME magazine review of The Case History of Comrade V
• letter to the Editor of TIME magazine by Sloan, dated 26 January 1968, about the Vietnam War