James Salter
Author · 17 books
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. Salter’s potent, lyrical prose earned him acclaim from critics, readers, and fellow novelists. His novel A Sport and a Pastime (1967) was hailed by the New York Times as “nearly perfect as any American fiction.”
Books
Don't Save Anything
Uncollected Essays, Articles, and Profiles
2017
Bangkok
2003
A Sport and a Pastime
1967
The Art of Fiction
2016
Memorable Days
The Selected Letters of James Salter and Robert Phelps
2010
Life Is Meals
A Food Lover's Book of Days
2006
Last Night
2005
Solo Faces
1979
All That Is
2013
Dusk and Other Stories
1988
Light Years
1975
Cassada
2000
There and Then
The Travel Writing of James Salter
2005
The Hunters
1956
Burning the Days
1997
Collected Stories
2013
Gods of Tin
The Flying Years
2004
