James Salter Writer

James Salter (born June 10, 1925, New York City) is an American novelist and short-story writer. Originally a career officer and pilot in the United States Air Force, he abandoned the military profession in 1957 following the successful publication of his first novel, The Hunters.After a brief career in film writing and film directing, Salter became a "writer's writer" in 1979 with publication of the novel Solo Faces. He has won numerous literary awards for his works, including belated recognition of works originally rejected at the time of their publication. His friend and fellow author, the Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Ford, goes so far as to say, "It is an article of faith among readers of fiction that James Salter writes American sentences better than anybody writing today" in his Introduction to Light Years for Penguin Modern Classics.

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Alias (AKA)	Horowitz James A. (birth name)
Birth date	June 10, 1925
Birth place	New York City , United States , New York

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influenced by	André Gide Henry de Montherlant John Berryman Henry Miller Vladimir Nabokov William Faulkner Jean Genet Thomas Wolfe Louis-Ferdinand Céline