James salter author biography of suzanne

          A graduate of West Point, Salter served in the U.S. Air Force and flew more than one hundred combat missions during the Korean War, the subject for his first.

        1. A graduate of West Point, Salter served in the U.S. Air Force and flew more than one hundred combat missions during the Korean War, the subject for his first.
        2. Salter, who grew up in Manhattan as James Horowitz, came to the Hamptons in , when he was stationed in the Air Force at Westhampton Beach.
        3. Salter () had abandoned two successful careers: one delayed his progress as a novelist, the other derailed it.
        4. Susan Faludi talks with host Richard Wolinsky about her book, In The Darkroom, winner of the Kirkus Prize and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
        5. James Salter was a novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, and essayist.

          6. Salter () had abandoned two successful careers: one delayed his progress as a novelist, the other derailed it....

          James Salter is the best American writer you’ve probably never read.

          He was a fighter pilot in the Korean War, flying more than 100 combat missions in an F-86 Sabre.

          He wrote Hollywood screenplays, one of which was made into a film starring Robert Redford.

          Three of his books — the novels A Sport and a Pastimeand Light Years, and a memoir called Burning the Days — place him among the greatest postwar American novelists despite bad reviews and poor sales on publication.

          Salter’s prose was widely respected by other writers.

          Richard Ford said he “writes American sentences better than anybody writing today”, but he didn’t get the recognition he deserved until he’d reached his eighties.

          I’d come across his name many times over the years.

          I knew he was someone I should read, but it wasn’t until I picked up a copy of Light Years from a used bookshop in February that I realized what I was missing.

          The first page completely blew me away. His sentences were fractured jewe