Larry Sloan

Lloyd Lawrence "Larry" Sloan (1922 – October 14, 2012) was an American

Sloan was born Lloyd Lawrence Solomon to a Jewish family in New York City in 1922, the son of Joseph Solomon and Freida Lewis Solomon.^[1] His mother opened a clothing business and his father was a graduate of Columbia Law School 1908lawyer. Sloan and his parents moved to Los Angeles after his only sibling, Grenna Sloan, moved to California to pursue an acting career.^[1] Larry Sloan initially studied at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), but soon left college to enlist in the United States Army following the outbreak of World War II. He later attended Stanford University, where he studied Chinese language.^[1]

He returned to Los Angeles after the war. Sloan became a

Price Stern Sloan partner and Mad Libs co-creator Roger Price died in 1990. In 1993, Leonard Stern and Larry Sloan sold Price Stern Sloan to Putnam Berkley Group, which is now known as Penguin Group.^[1][3]

Sloan and Stern later co-founded

Larry Sloan died from a brief illness at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles on October 14, 2012, at the age of 89.^[1] He was the last surviving founder of Price Stern Sloan, as Leonard Stern had died in 2011.^[1] Sloan was survived by his wife of thirty-nine years, Eleanor; five children - Claudia Sloan, Bonnie Smigel-Derin, Liz Fallert, Amy Harrison and Scott Harrison; and six grandchildren.^[1] He had been a longtime resident of Malibu, California.^[1]

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