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James Arnold Horowitz (June 10, 1925 – June 19, 2015), better known as James Salter, his pen name and later-adopted legal name, was an American novelist and short-story writer.
Jun 20, 2015 · James Salter, whose intimately detailed novels and short stories kept a small but devoted audience in his thrall for more than half a century, died on Friday in Sag Harbor, N.Y. He was 90.
Jun 15, 2024 · James Salter was an American fiction writer and screenwriter whose work is characterized by a careful, economical use of language and by themes that often involve the passage of time and the losses experienced along the way.
Jun 20, 2015 · NEW YORK (AP) — James Salter, the prize-winning author acclaimed for his sophisticated, granular prose and sobering insights in “Light Years,” ’'A Sport and a Pastime” and other fiction, has died at age 90.
Jun 19, 2015 · James Salter (1925 - 2015) was a novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. Salter grew up in New York City and was a career officer and Air Force pilot until his mid-thirties, when the success of his first novel (The Hunters, 1957) led to a fulltime writing career.
Jul 7, 2015 · An excerpt from the novelist's memoir, Burning the Days, about his last training flight in a T-6 plane before World War II. He describes his confusion, fear and desperation as he gets lost in the dark sky and tries to find his way home.
James Salter, a ‘Writer’s Writer’ Short on Sales but Long on Acclaim, Dies at 90. Mr. Salter wrote slowly, exactingly and, by almost every critic’s estimation, beautifully.
