City México.- American writer James Salter, died at age 90 in Sag Harbor, New York, as reported by the newspaper “The New York Times”.
The wife Salter, Kay Eldredge, confirmed his death to the Daily, but did not specify the cause of death.
Member of the same generation as Richard Yates, considered master by Richard Ford and a student at the military academy of West Point two years behind Jack Kerouac, Salter was not the most popular of them all, but time will increasingly appreciated and authors began to cite reference.
His most famous novel remains ‘A sport and a pastime’ (‘a sport and a hobby’), a short work published in 1967 on an intense affair in France is now considered a classic of erotic literature.
He received several awards for his short stories: he won the PEN Book Award for “Dusk and Other Stories” (1988) collection and received two tributes short stories written throughout his career: the Rea Award and the Award PEN / Malamud.
Far from obsessed with being prolific, Salter worked slowly and carefully, and throughout his life only published six novels and two collections of stories.
In April 2014, Salter spoke in an interview about his life and work, shortly after publishing “All That Is” (“Everything there”), his first novel since 1979.
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