The American writer James Salter, author of six novels in 60 years, died Friday at age 90, said his French publisher Oliver Cohen, director of Editions de l’Olivier.
The American writer, who lived in Bridghampton (NYS), died while conducting “a gym class,” the French publisher, confirming information from the media USA.
Salter’s first novel, “The Hunters” (“Fighter Pilot”), appeared in 1956 in the United States.
In the work, largely autobiographical, Salter, former pilot of US aviation, says the daily life of the fighter pilots during the Korean War.
Salter, born on June 10, 1925 in New York under the name James Horowitz, formed in the prestigious West Point military academy, joined the Pentagon after the war.
Designed in France, then he began writing and then entirely dedicated to this task, leaving the army after the publication of his first novel, filmed in 1958 by Dick Powell entitled “Space Foxes” (“The Hunters” in Spain), starring Robert Mitchum.
” The idea of being a writer, is to make the large accumulation of days something that lasts, “he said at the time.
In 1967 became known abroad with his third novel,” Game and distraction “whose plot takes place in France.
Followed” Light Years “,” Solo “and compilation of stories” Dusk “prize PEN / Faulkner in 1988.
Awarded by the body of work by the Academy of Arts and Letters US Salter published his autobiography, “Burning the Days” in 1998.
His latest novel, “All what is “, it was published in 2014 and again evokes the memory of the war but also the pursuit of perfect love, disappointment, glory and its insignificance. Hailed in the whole world, this novel was chosen in 2014 as “foreign booksellers favorite book” French.
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