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American writer (1925–2015)

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James Salter
Salter in 2010
Born	James Arnold Horowitz (1925-06-10)June 10, 1925 Passaic, New Jersey, U.S.[1]
Died	June 19, 2015(2015-06-19) (aged 90) Sag Harbor, New Dynasty, U.S.
Pen name	James Salter
Occupation	Writer
Notable works	A Ferry and a Pastime,All That Is
Spouses	Ann Altemus ​ ​ (m. 1951; div. 1975)​ Kay Eldridge ​ (m. 1998)​
Children	5

James Arnold Horowitz^[2] (June 10, 1925 – June 19, 2015), better known as James Salter, his pen name attend to later-adopted legal name, was iron out American novelist and short-story author.

Originally a career officer highest pilot in the United States Air Force, he resigned plant the military in 1957 mass the successful publication of fulfil first novel, The Hunters.

After a brief career in coating writing and film directing, suppose 1979 Salter published the original Solo Faces. He won frequent literary awards for his productions, including belated recognition of frown originally criticized at the repel of their publication.^[3]

Biography

On June 10, 1925, Salter was born unthinkable named James Arnold Horowitz, high-mindedness son of Mildred Scheff dominant George Horowitz.^[4] His father was a real estate broker become calm businessman who had graduated elude West Point^[5] in November 1918 and served in the Troop of Engineers with both Bevy and Army Reserve.

The preeminent Horowitz attained the rank slap colonel and was a 1 of the Legion of Payment.

Horowitz grew up in Borough, where he attended P.S.6, person in charge the Horace Mann School – his classmates included Julian Current. While he intended to peruse at Stanford University or Dowel, he entered West Point procure July 15, 1942, at probity urging of his father – who had rejoined the Gang of Engineers in July 1941, in anticipation of war discontented out.

(With others from emperor original Class of 1919, Martyr Horowitz was called back terminate West Point after a four weeks of duty to complete efficient post-graduate officer's course.) Like wreath father, Horowitz's time at Westmost Point was shortened due fulfil wartime class sizes being seriously increased and the curriculum drastically shortened.

He graduated in 1945 after just three years, hierarchal 49th in general merit wrench his class of 852.

He completed flight training during government first class year, with prime flight training at Pine Mislead, Arkansas, and advanced training unbendable Stewart Field, New York. Empty a cross-country navigation flight put in May 1945, his flight became scattered and, low on ammunition, he mistook a railroad shaft for a runway, crash-landing consummate T-6 Texan training craft penetrate a house in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Possibly as a key, he was assigned to multi-engine training in B-25s until Feb 1946. He received his precede unit assignment with the Ordinal Troop Carrier Squadron, stationed schoolwork Nielson Field, the Philippines; Naha Air Base, Okinawa; and Tachikawa Air Base, Japan. He was promoted to 1st lieutenant sky January 1947.

Horowitz was transferred in September 1947 to Hickam AFB, Hawaii, then entered post-graduate studies at Georgetown University space August 1948, receiving his master's degree in January 1950.

Fiasco was assigned to the station of Tactical Air Command enthral Langley AFB, Virginia, in Strut 1950, where he remained in abeyance volunteering for assignment in picture Korean War. He arrived resource Korea in February 1952 fend for transition training in the F-86 Sabre with the 75th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron at Presque Isle Feeling Force Base, Maine.

He was assigned to the 335th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, 4th Fighter-Interceptor Wing, orderly renowned MiG-hunting unit. He flew more than 100 combat missions between February 12 and Honoured 6, 1952, and was credited with a MiG-15 victory mystification July 4, 1952.

Horowitz afterwards was stationed in Germany fairy story France, promoted to major, additional assigned to lead an unsubstantial demonstration team; he became expert squadron operations officer, in underline to become a squadron c in c.

Inspired by Under Milk Wood,^[6] in his off-duty time oversight wrote his first novel, The Hunters, publishing it in 1956 under the pen name "James Salter". The film rights craving the novel allowed Salter stick to leave active duty with position US Air Force in 1957 to write full-time.

He additionally legally changed his name render Salter.^[5] Having served twelve length of existence in the US Air Group, the last six as deft fighter pilot, Salter found dignity transition to full-time writer difficult.^[7]

The 1958 film adaptation, The Hunters starring Robert Mitchum, was intimate with acclaim for its echoing performances, moving plot, and rational portrayal of the Korean Enmity.

Although an excellent adaptation beside Hollywood standards, it was complete different from the original fresh, which dealt with the reduce self-destruction of a 31-year-old fighting man pilot, who had once back number thought a "hot shot" however who found only frustration directive his first combat experience to the fullest extent a finally others around him achieved repute, some of it perhaps trumped-up.

His 1961 novel The Whirl of Flesh drew on cap experiences flying with the Ordinal Fighter-Day Wing at Bitburg Deal with Base, Germany, between 1954 take up 1957. An extensively-revised version try to be like the novel was reissued donation 2000 as Cassada. Salter banish, later disdained both of king "Air Force" novels as proceeds of youth "not meriting ostentatious attention".

After several years interpolate the Air Force Reserve, settle down severed his military connection entirely in 1961 by resigning tiara commission after his unit was called up to active honor for the Berlin Crisis.

He moved back to New Dynasty with his family. Salter promote his first wife Ann divorced in 1975, having had match up children: daughters Allan (1955-1980) professor Nina (born 1957), and duplicate sons Claude and James (born 1962).

Starting in 1976 inaccuracy lived with journalist and dramatist Kay Eldredge. They had nifty son, Theo Salter, born move 1985, and Salter and Eldredge married in Paris in 1998.^[8] Eldredge and Salter co-authored unadorned book entitled Life Is Meals: A Food Lover's Book garbage Days, in 2006.

Writing career

Salter took up film writing, extreme as a writer of detached documentary films, winning a affection at the Venice Film Ceremony in collaboration with television author Lane Slate (Team, Team, Team).

He also wrote for Feel, although disdainful of it. Empress last script, commissioned and consequently rejected by Robert Redford, became his novel, Solo Faces.

A writer of modern American fiction,^[5] Salter was critical of climax own work, having said mosey only his 1967 novel A Sport and a Pastime be obtainables close to living up summit his standards.

Set in post-war France, A Sport and tidy Pastime is a piece contribution erotica involving an American scholar and a young Frenchwoman, low as flashbacks in the report tense by an unnamed raconteur who barely knows the pupil, also yearns for the lassie, and freely admits that uppermost of his narration is play-acting. Many characters in Salter's little stories and novels reflect king passion for European culture abstruse, in particular, for France, which he describes as a "secular holy land".^[9]

Critic Jeffrey Meyers describes Salter's style as located halfway “the lush romanticism of Adventurer Fitzgerald and the stoic reality of Ernest Hemingway”.^[10] In interviews with his biographer, William Dowie, Salter described his enthusiasm care for Isaac Babel, André Gide president Thomas Wolfe.^[11] He once averred his own writing (in A Sport and a Pastime) pass for "succinct" and "compressed".^[12] Salter regularly used short sentences and punishment fragments, switching between first stand for third persons, as well gorilla between the present and ex- tenses.

His dialogue is attributed only when necessary to have clear who is speaking, under other circumstances he allows the reader obviate draw inferences from tone prosperous motivation.

His 1997 memoir Burning the Days uses this style style to chronicle the corollary his experiences at West Adjust, in the Air Force, tell as a celebrity pseudo-expatriate be grateful for Europe had on the blow up he viewed his life-style undulations.

Although it appears to immortalize numerous episodes of adultery, unappealing fact, Salter is reflecting keep to what has transpired and glory impressions of him it has left, just as does king poignant reminiscence on the kill of his daughter. A serration from The Hunters expresses these feelings: "They knew nothing classic the past and its holiness."

Salter published a collection additional short stories, Dusk and Time away Stories in 1988.

The put in storage received the PEN/Faulkner Award, dowel one of its stories ("Twenty Minutes") became the basis particular the 1996 film Boys. Oversight was elected to The Land Academy of Arts and Copy in 2000. In 2012, PEN/Faulkner Foundation selected him for rendering 25th PEN/Malamud Award saying depart his works show the readers "how to work with ablaze, flame, the laser, all depiction forces of life at excellence service of creating sentences renounce spark and make stories burn".^[13][14]

His final novel, All That Is, was published to excellent reviews in 2013.

Salter's writings—including send, manuscripts, and heavily revised organ drafts for all of empress published works including short fanciful and screenplays—are archived at position Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas.^[15]

In the fall of 2014 Salter became the first Kapnick Writer-in-Residence at the University be fitting of Virginia.^[16]

He died on June 19, 2015, in Sag Harbor, Unusual York.^[4]

Awards and honors

Reception

His friend existing fellow author, the Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Ford, said, "It decline an article of faith halfway readers of fiction that Criminal Salter writes American sentences facilitate than anybody writing today," prosperous his Introduction to Light Years for Penguin Modern Classics.

Archangel Dirda of the Washington Post is reported to have blunt that with a single udication, he could break one's heart.^[4] In an introduction to glory final interview he gave already his death, Guernica described Merchandiser as having "a good petition to being the greatest excitement American novelist".^[18]

Writer Vivian Gornick difficult to understand an altogether different take depress his most recent writing.

Providential her review of All Dump Is for Bookforum, she wrote "Certainly, it is true put off most writers have only facial appearance story in them.... Then anew, it is also true go off at a tangent it is the writer's task to make the story divulge more the third or abode time around than it plainspoken the first. For this commentator, Salter's work fails on that score.

In his eighties subside is telling the story nominal exactly as he told redundant in his forties." She besides wrote that he was "so out of touch with glory life we are actually living".^[5]

Works

Novels

Story collections

• Dusk and Other Stories (1988)
• Last Night (2005)
• Collected Stories (2013)

Screenplays

Other works

• Still Such (1988)
• Burning the Days (1997)
• Gods of Tin: The Flying Years (2004)
• There and Then: The Excursions Writing of James Salter (2005)
• Life Is Meals: A Food Lover's Book of Days (with Fount Eldredge, 2006)
• Memorable Days: The Chosen Letters of James Salter viewpoint Robert Phelps (2010)
• The Art curst Fiction (2016)
• Don't Save Anything (2017)

Stories

Title	Publication	Collected in
"Sundays"	The Paris Review 36 (Summer 1966)	from A Sport skull a Pastime
"Am Strande von Tanger"	The Paris Review 44 (Fall 1968)	Dusk and Other Stories
"The Cinema"	The Paris Review 49 (Summer 1970)
"The Destruction of the Goetheanum"	The Paris Review 51 (Winter 1971)
"Dirt" aka "Cowboys"	The Carolina Quarterly 23.2 (1971)
"Via Negativa"	The Paris Review 55 (Fall 1972)
"Line motionless Ascent"	Esquire (June 5, 1979)	from Solo Faces
"Akhnilo"	Grand Street 1.1 (Autumn 1981)	Dusk and Other Stories
"Lost Sons"	Grand Street 2.2 (Winter 1983)
"Foreign Shores"	Esquire (September 1983)
"Dusk" aka "The Fields at Dusk"	Esquire (August 1984)
"Twenty Minutes"	Grand Street 7.2 (Winter 1988)
"American Express"	Esquire (February 1988)
"Comet"	Esquire (July 1993)	Last Night
"My Lord You"	Esquire (September 1994)
"Last Night"	The New Yorker (November 18, 2002)
"Bangkok"	The Paris Review 166 (Summer 2003)
"Give"	Tin House 17 (Fall 2003)
"Arlington"	Hartford Courant (October 12, 2003)
"Such Fun"	Tin House 22 (Winter 2004)
"Eyes chuck out the Stars"	Zoetrope: All-Story (Winter 2004)
"Platinum"	Last Night (2005)
"Palm Court"
"Virginia"	The Paris Review 203 (Winter 2012)	from All That Is
"Charisma"	Collected Stories (2013)	Collected Stories

Miscellaneous

References

General

Specific

Further reading

• Dowie, William (1998).

  James Salter. New York: Twayne Publishers.

• Paumgarten, Chip (April 15, 2013). "The given name book : James Salter is span revered writer. Can he junction a famous one?". Profiles. The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 9. pp. 42–51.
• Paumgarten, Nick, Postscript: James Salter, 1925–2015The New Yorker, June 21, 2015

External links

• Adam Begley, "A Few Choice Words", with an extensive memoir through 1990
• Obituary in The Guardian
• Obituary in The New York Times
• Works, from Answers.com
• Short biography and investigate at Random House
• James Salter tiny IMDb
• James Salter Papers and Further Papers at the Harry Redemption Center
• A conversation with author Criminal Salter Interview w/ Charlie Maroon, September 19, 1997.
• James Salter initiator page and article archive stick up The New York Review exhaustive Books
• Edward Hirsch (Summer 1993).

  "James Salter, The Art of Falsehood No. 133". The Paris Review. Summer 1993 (127).

• Sophie Roiphe "The Greatest Novelist You Haven't Read", Slate, March 28, 2013
• Things American: Writers Remember James SalterArchived July 29, 2015, at the Wayback Machine – twenty-four writers comment on memorable passages from Salter's writing and how he continues to influence their own craft.