Gateway Essentials: William M. Sloane

William Milligan Sloane III was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1906, and died in New York in 1974. He was an editor at a number of distinguished houses, including Henry Holt & Company and Funk & Wagnall’s, before founding his own publisher, William Sloane Associates, Inc. He resigned from his own company in 1952 and from 1955 until his death, was the director of Rutgers University Press. He was also a playwright and author whose two novels of interest to the SF field – the occult/SF hybrids To Walk the Night and The Edge of Running Water – are today’s Gateway Essentials.

To Walk the Night	The Edge of Running Water

You can read more about William M. Sloane in his entry in The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.