The fame came later than his contemporaries Richard Yates and Jack Kerouac (had studied, like the latter, in Horace Mann School), but also death: James Salter died yesterday, 90 years in Sag Harbor, in the state of New York.
He was born with the name of James Arnold Horowitz and, at age 20, graduated from the Military Academy at West Point, where he trained as fighter pilot. He fought in Korea and served more than a hundred missions in a twelve-year military career, which changed the pluma.Su first novel, fighter pilots, published in 1957, reflected precisely those years of war with a precise prose and bluntly it would be his trademark style. It was around this time that he adopted the name of James Salter. On the relationship between fiction and reality, Salter said in an interview with The Paris Review: “It seems arbitrary idea that something is completely invented and those things invented classified as” fiction “while others allegedly real, “non-fiction” are called. We know that most of the novels do not leave completely invented things, but close observation. I personally do not care about those writers who say that everything comes from the imagination. ” In 1988 he released a collection of stories under the title Dusk and that same year received the PEN / Faulkner Award. He won in 2013 the Windham Campbell Award and in 2014 was nominated for the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters.
He was married twice and fathered five children. Allan daughter was electrocuted in the writer’s house in Aspen and he found the body. From there, Salter’s life changed: “It’s something that will not heal never … I can not write about the death of my own child”
is the author, among other books, of. Game novels and distraction and light years. His latest book which appeared in Castilian was all there. .
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